Jan Troell Movies

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...

Protagonist Johan Ekberg has apparently worked at the railway, but is now relegated to a passive existence as a pensioner. He walks through the city...

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

Jan Troell turns the camera toward his own life and work, assembling a flowing mosaic of film excerpts, personal recordings, landscapes, and fleeting...

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

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

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

A portrait of Swedish film maker Jan Troell.

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

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...