Movies: Jan Troell

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity....

A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malmö, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The machinery starts moving, passengers board the train. Before the boy enters the car, his mother gives him ...

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life....

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Jan Troell portrays the friend and photographer Georg Oddner. For more than half a century, from 1950 arriving in New York, Georg Oddner has lived with his camera....

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Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossi...

Director Jan Troell films the process of making Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair'). The footage was compiled into this documentary by Stefan Nylén and Tomas Ehrnborg in 2015....

About the difficulty of finding its way....

When Yohanna started the first grade in school, her classmates began bullying her. She kept getting bullied for six years. This is her story....

A train passes the village Stångby in the countryside. Three-year-old Åsa comes running naked along a street and into a modern villa, located close to the railway track. She has just started her life, and the whole world is there for her to discover....

A small local radio station in the city of Trelleborg, Sweden. Very important to its listeners. A friend in the air....

The film depicts some people's innocent presence a weekday at the World Trade Center in New York. The powerful architecture of the twin tower still spans the sky. With pictures and music, a ......

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Jan Troell's 2008 film "Everlasting Moments."...

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It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Sweden, hoping to find new work and adventures. Based on the novella by famous Sw...

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A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation....