Jan Troell Movies

Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only...

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...

Director Jan Troell films the process of making Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair'). The footage was compiled...

Jan Troell presents a brief, contemplative work centered on the problem of orientation and the challenge of finding direction. The film is structured...

Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci.

Shot months before September 11, "Reflection 2001" captures the Twin Towers as part of the daily rhythm of New York life—vast, immovable, and...

A portrait of Swedish film maker Jan Troell.

An artistic representation of Halland, Sweden. Four girls dressed in four different colors represent the four regions and rivers (Viskan, Ätran,...

Movement, glance, rhythm and hints. Meetings on fragrant meadows and in enclosed training rooms. Joy, sweat, disciplined training and physical...

For nine years in the 1950s, Jan Troell worked as a teacher at the Sorgenfri primary school in Malmö (an experience he drew on for his study of...

"Porträtt av Åsa" observes the everyday life of Åsa, a young child growing up in rural Sweden. Through quiet, observational scenes...

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...