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 Ox
(1991)A man confesses to killing his master’s ox to feed his starving wife and infant daughter yet receives a brutal jail sentence from a conniving deputy.

The Night Visitor
(1971)A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity," he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum.

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.

Needful Things
(1993)Sheriff Alan Pangborn is baffled -- and a bit scared. Almost overnight, the residents of Castle Rock, Maine, the normally peaceful seaside community he serves, seem to have gone mad.

Sleepless
(2001)A retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth join forces to find a serial killer who's resumed a killing spree after a 17-year lull.

Steppenwolf
(1974)Harry's vivid imagination has him convinced that, inside, a wolf lurks. Will it break free? Is Harry, as the 60s rock group Steppenwolf phrased it, "Born to Be Wild." Harry, age 48, is a Central European intellectual in the full sway of a mid-life crisis. One he intends to put paid to by committing suicide when he is 50 - will he be rescued by the mysterious Hermine and the Magic Theatre?

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.

Echoes of the Past
(2021)A lawyer with her own fraught history meets an acclaimed writer, who poignantly recounts his childhood experience during the Nazi invasion of Greece
Interlude in the Marshland
(1965)Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
(2013)A dreamer and a scholar explore how dragons have influenced culture.

Heidi
(2005)Classic story of a little Swiss girl, who, after the death of her parents, is sent to live with her goat herding grandfather (Max Von Sydow) in the high Alpine mountains.

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.