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Swedish cinema: Fantasy

The Devil's Eye (1960)
Ingmar Bergman

Few things annoy the Devil more than a woman's chastity - it always brings on a painful stye in his eye. Irked by this affliction, he summons Don Juan, who is still serving his 300 year sentence in Hell, and sends him back to Earth on a vital mission - to divest a pastor's 20-year old daughter, Britt-Marie, of her virginity...   [More...]

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Benjamin Christensen

For hundreds, if not thousands of years, witches have predominated in folklore, these being the likely instigators of all the ills and mishaps that afflict mankind...   [More...]

Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Ingmar Bergman

A painter, Johan Borg, and his young wife Alma move into a small cottage on a remote island. Some time after their idyllic first weeks on the island, Alma notices a change in her husband...   [More...]

Persona (1966)
Ingmar Bergman

Whilst performing a stage play, a well-known actress Elisabeth Vogler loses the power of speech. There follows a mental breakdown throughout which she is bed-ridden and unable, or unwilling, to speak...   [More...]

The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Victor Sjöström

As she lies on her deathbed one New Year's eve, salvation army worker Edit insists that a man named David Holm be brought to her...   [More...]

The Sacrifice (1986)
Andrey Tarkovskiy

Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island...   [More...]

The Seventh Seal (1957)
Ingmar Bergman

In the mid-fourteenth century, Europe is being ravaged by the Black Death. On his way home from the Crusades, a knight, Antonius Block, is visited by Death, in the form of an old man in a black cowl...   [More...]

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