Max von Sydow
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The Virgin Spring
(1960)Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the director tells the story of the rape and murder of the virgin Karin, and her father Töre’s ruthless pursuit of vengeance against the three killers. Starring Max von Sydow and photographed by the brilliant Sven Nykvist, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity.

Hour of the Wolf
(1968)Johan Borg (Max Von Sydow), an artist battling repressed desires, starts to lose his grip on reality while vacationing on a remote Scandinavian island with his wife Alma (Liv Ulmann).

The Flight of the Eagle
(1982)In 1897, a visionary Swedish engineer and two colleagues launch a disastrous expedition to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. Based on a true story.

The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965)With an all-star cast, the life and teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth are retold on a grand scale in this inspiring, larger-than-life film.

The Passion of Anna
(1969)When Andreas (Max von Sydow) meets Anna (Liv Ullmann) he is a man struggling with the collapse of both his marriage and his emotional state. Subsequently, Anna is grieving the recent loss of her husband and son, and the two enter into a relationship. As things continue to deteriorate around them so do both of their mental states.

The Magician
(1958)Ingmar Bergman's The Magician is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema's premier illusionists. Max von Sydow stars as Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and potion-peddler whose magic is put to the test by the cruel, rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus. The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that's both frightening and funny.

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
(1990)Esta es la verdadera historia de estadounidenses, europeos y japoneses que lucharon por sobrevivir al ataque más devastador de la historia.
Interlude in the Marshland
(1965)Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
(2013)A dreamer and a scholar explore how dragons have influenced culture.

Father
(1990)Tracked down by Holocaust survuvor Iya Zetnick Joe is soon exposed as a concentration camp functionary responsible for murdering her family back in Lithuania. Branded a war criminal and subject to all manner of speculation and charge, Joe faces a heart wrenching ordeal - forgoing his once idyllic existence for a life of turmoil and paranoia - with his family his only refuge.

Shame
(1968)
Pelle the Conqueror
(1987)Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark's Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year.

Hawaii
(1966)This restored version of James Michener's best seller traces the arrival of missionaries in 1820’s Hawaii and the devastation of a paradise lost.

Dreamscape
(1984)A young psychic who can enter people’s dreams must use his gift to stop a plot to assassinate the President of the United States while he sleeps.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils
(1962)In this enchanting adventure, a mischievous boy shrinks and embarks on a magical journey across Sweden, soaring on a goose in a tale of discovery.

The Ultimate Warrior
(1975)Suspenseful and gripping sci-fi adventure about the post-nuclear holocaust future in which mankind is reduced to bands of warring scavengers struggling to survive. Starring Academy Award-nominee Max von Sydow ("Hannah and Her Sisters") and Yul Brynner ("The Magnificent Seven"). From the director of "Enter the Dragon."

The Diary of Anne Frank
(1967)Enter the claustrophobic space where a Jewish 13-year-old girl’s family hid with others during Nazi-occupied Holland until their discovery in 1944.

Citizen X
(1995)A Russian police detective faces almost insurmountable odds in his search for the most savage serial killer of modern times.

Through a Glass Darkly
(1961)Strained relationships and haunting visions blur reality for a young woman with schizophrenia when she vacations with her family on a remote island.

Conan the Barbarian
(1982)When he grows up to become a valiant warrior, Conan vows revenge against the evil warlord that savagely murdered his parents and enslaved him as a child.