Gunnar Björnstrand

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.

Strained relationships and haunting visions blur reality for a young woman with schizophrenia when she vacations with her family on a remote island.

Ingmar Bergman's highly personal treatise on the torments of faith, in which a widowed village pastor struggles to deal with his parishioners and ex-lover.

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.

An actress recovering from a breakdown exercises a strange hold over her nurse.

On his way to an awards ceremony, a distinguished professor is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

1968. Men are in charge and the world is burning. A travelling theatre company takes a production of Lysistrata on tour and it’s not long before the cast start seeing their own lives and relationships through fresh eyes. Zetterling’s riff on Aristophanes’ play revealed that little had changed in society since it was written. Simone de Beauvoir loved it.

Adrian Masters talks to some of the leading personalities in Welsh life about the key moments in their careers and asks them about their memories and motives.

Mai Zetterling’s feature debut weaves together the lives of three women, each reflecting on their personal and sexual lives as they arrive at a maternity ward in the summer of 1914. Through flashbacks, fragments of their lives and loves are retold – incestuous love, masochistic love, lesbian love, destructive love. The film caused some upset at Cannes but received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

In Stockholm, an amnesiac investigates his identity with the help of a sympathetic waitress, while fearing that he may be an escaped fugitive.

On the brink of a bitter divorce, a woman and her children move in with her mother, where she reflects on her family's troubled history with love.

Autumn Sonata was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans: Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca.