Gösta Ekman
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Swedish
Description
Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s...
2) Faust
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Newly restored. Inspired by the German legend and by Goethe's classic tale, Murnau's Faust tells the story of an alchemist (played by Gösta Ekman) who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth ... in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific.
5) Intermezzo
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Swedish
Description
Anita Hoffman, an aspiring classical pianist, falls in love with a famed, but married, concert violinist. Their passionate affair has deep and unanticipated consequences for them both, and for Anita, the affair also stirs a crisis of conscience.--Container
6) Faust
Author
Language
Silent
Description
A tale of the battle between good and evil, in which Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles. From the play by Johann Wolfgang Goeth. Score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
7) Faust
Series
Publisher
Desert Island Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clear, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth.
8) Faust
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
The scholar Faust makes a pact with the forces of evil to gain higher truths, and must pay for what he has received.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
The Count of the Old Town: Bergman had her first speaking role in this ensemble comedy, as a chambermaid seduced by a suspected jewel thief.
Walpurgis night: Tackling the subject of Sweden's declining birth rate, this topical drama features Bergman as a virtuous young woman who becomes entangled in a sordid love triangle.
Intermezzo: Gustaf Molander's swooning romance, about an ill-starred affair, made Bergman a star in Sweden, and she would go...
