Jörn Donner Movies

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During...

Jörn Donner’s entire production can be considered as a self-portrait, a life-spanning performance. Whilst others have painted one image or...

Known for his sharp tongue and controversial statements, Jörn Donner has been an important cultural personality in Sweden and Finland since the...

Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between...

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of...

Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.

Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on the Criterion Collection box set of the film.

Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her...

Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. But the audience fails.

Johanna has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate,...

TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998.

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic...

Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn...

Interview with Ingmar Bergman by the Swedish Film Institute's then CEO Jörn Donner about the filming of Fanny and Alexander.

Long-time cohabiting couple Petteri and Liisa wake up with a terrible hangover and realize to their horror that they got married the night before....

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well...

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.