Gunnar Björnstrand

Gunnar Björnstrand

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Gunnar Björnstrand (November 13, 1909 – May 26, 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer/director Ingmar Bergman. He was born in Stockholm. He appeared in over 120 films.

Björnstrand at first had trouble finding work but got an engagement in Helsinki with his wife 1936-1938. Back in Stockholm he met Ingmar Bergman, at that time a mostly unknown theatre director. In the 1940s he got his first major film roles, making a breakthrough with the 1946 movie Kristin kommenderar. He was a versatile actor who could play tough and tender as well as comedy and tragedy. His daughter Veronica Björnstrand is also an actress. One of his most famous roles was as the worldly squire who makes such a contrast to his austere and spiritual master in Bergman’s most famous film The Seventh Seal.

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Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Drama Fantasy Mystery
Childhood in the Ekdahl household is a warm, theatrical thing, full of candlelight and performance and the hum of family life. When the children's father dies, their mother's remarriage to...
Score 7.8
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Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata (1978)

Drama Music
Seven years of silence between a mother and daughter collapse into a single night of reckoning. Charlotte, a celebrated concert pianist who chose her career over her children, arrives at...
Score 8.0
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Persona

Persona (1966)

Drama
When a celebrated actress abruptly stops speaking, a nurse named Alma is assigned to her care at a remote seaside cottage. The arrangement seems simple at first: one woman talks,...
Score 8.1
4
Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Drama
An aging Swedish professor, respected by colleagues but emotionally remote from the people who know him best, spends a long car ride confronting the wreckage of his inner life. Traveling...
Score 8.1
5
The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Drama Fantasy
A Swedish knight rides home from the Crusades to find plague ravaging the land and his own faith in ruins. When Death comes to claim him, he proposes a chess...
Score 8.2

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