Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson (15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.102 |
| Birthday | 1923-06-16 |
| Place of Birth | Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden |
| Also Known As | Buntel Ericsson, Эрланд Юзефсон, |
1983
Nostalgia
7.8/540
A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
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Nostalgia
1972
Cries and Whispers
7.9/705
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
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Cries and Whispers
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
6.9/461
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1981
Season of Peace in Paris
5.1/5
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures,...
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Season of Peace in Paris
1991
Prospero's Books
6.8/94
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this un...
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Prospero's Books
1998
Från regnormarnas liv
0/0
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
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Från regnormarnas liv
1982
Fanny and Alexander
7.8/791
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies...
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Fanny and Alexander
1979
A Look at Liv
0/0
Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources...
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A Look at Liv
1995
Ulysses' Gaze
7.4/108
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
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Ulysses' Gaze
1973
Foto: Sven Nykvist
0/0
A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven Nykvist,, emphasizing his style of lighting and se...
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Foto: Sven Nykvist
1986
The Sacrifice
7.7/538
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
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The Sacrifice
2009
Änglastämman
0/0
The old man tells of angels, growing olives and the daughter he lost.
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Änglastämman
1978
Autumn Sonata
8/623
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte s...
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Autumn Sonata
1984
After the Rehearsal
6.9/58
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back,...
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After the Rehearsal
1958
The Magician
7.4/220
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at V...
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The Magician
1976
Face to Face
7.3/115
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the co...
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Face to Face
1988
Hanussen
6.1/18
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim disco...
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Hanussen
1969
The Passion of Anna
7.5/181
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psyc...
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The Passion of Anna
1958
Brink of Life
7.5/78
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
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Brink of Life
1991
The Accidental Golfer
5.1/60
I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Sti...
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The Accidental Golfer
1993
Minns ni?
0/0
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Minns ni?
1950
To Joy
6.9/63
After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
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To Joy
2000
Faithless
6.8/45
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Mar...
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Faithless
1998
In the Presence of a Clown
7.1/26
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsa...
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In the Presence of a Clown
1988
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
0/0
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erl...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1968
Hour of the Wolf
7.4/499
While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
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Hour of the Wolf
1998
The Tattooed Widow
7.1/6
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. Sh...
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The Tattooed Widow
1990
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
6.1/18
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
1977
Beyond Good and Evil
5.9/26
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-...
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Beyond Good and Evil
1981
Montenegro
6.5/21
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk...
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Montenegro
1988
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
7.4/12
This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but...
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
2003
Saraband
7.3/108
In this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan an...
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Saraband
1979
To Forget Venice
5.3/12
Nicky and Marta, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Claudia and her lover, as well as Nic...
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To Forget Venice
1977
I Am Afraid
7/16
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally uprig...
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I Am Afraid
1983
The House of the Yellow Carpet
5.4/18
Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings...
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
1995
Kristin Lavransdatter
4.4/8
The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride...
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Kristin Lavransdatter
1983
Savannen
0/0
A couple have installed a new high tech television system in their children's room and become more and more vary of it.
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Savannen
1985
Un caso d'incoscienza
0/0
In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to disc...
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Un caso d'incoscienza
1995
Vendetta
6.5/14
Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Gover...
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Vendetta
1986
Saving Grace
6.1/8
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italia...
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Saving Grace
2000
Light Keeps Me Company
7.8/8
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the...
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Light Keeps Me Company
1982
Variola Vera
7.2/25
An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease...
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Variola Vera
1956
Sceningång
4.5/2
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for t...
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Sceningång
1974
Scenes from a Marriage
8.1/357
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier...
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Scenes from a Marriage
1991
Meeting Venus
5.8/18
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the no...
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Meeting Venus
1999
On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
6/10
The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.
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On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
1991
The Wicked
8/1
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously devel...
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The Wicked
1968
The Girls
6.1/22
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The...
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The Girls
1985
Flying Devils
5.3/3
A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, pe...
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Flying Devils
2003
Now
5.647/17
A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night. They have no i...
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Now
1982
Dubbelsvindlarna
0/0
Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement waits a million kronor. The result of a successful b...
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Dubbelsvindlarna
2001
Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
3/1
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Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
1999
The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
5/3
A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and cla...
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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
1995
I Am Curious, Film
3.8/6
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
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I Am Curious, Film
1994
Dreamplay
0/1
Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has chil...
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Dreamplay
1984
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
6.8/18
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length docu...
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
1987
Control
5.5/11
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long...
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Control
1986
Amorosa
5.4/11
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is bro...
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Amorosa
1995
The Sunset Boys
6/1
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfr...
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The Sunset Boys
2004
Day and Night
6.5/19
Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody underst...
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Day and Night
1995
Stjärnbilder
0/0
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film h...
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Stjärnbilder
2009
Bergmans Hushållerska
10/3
Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harass...
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Bergmans Hushållerska
2008
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
5.2/4
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Tarkovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's le...
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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
2007
The Ghost Sonata
5.8/4
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. H...
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The Ghost Sonata
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.542/72
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
1975
The Magic Flute
7.3/87
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation o...
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The Magic Flute
1991
The Ox
6.6/15
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexp...
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The Ox
2006
Spelar du ikväll?
0/0
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Spelar du ikväll?
2006
Bergman Island
7.4/16
The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) looks back on his personal a...
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Bergman Island
1986
The Malady of Love
6/2
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. W...
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The Malady of Love
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
0/0
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
Lighting
0/0
A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."
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Lighting
1989
Migrations
6.2/5
Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
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Migrations
1986
L'ultima mazurka
0/0
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L'ultima mazurka
1957
Som man bäddar...
0/0
Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, Jo...
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Som man bäddar...
1984
Bakom jalusin
8/1
A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following...
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Bakom jalusin
1959
The Swedish General Strike 1909
0/0
The struggle between the LO and SAF and history of the labor movement
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The Swedish General Strike 1909
1983
Eva
0/0
Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned t...
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Eva
1974
The Vocation
9/1
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...
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The Vocation
1983
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
0/0
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since t...
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1990
The Dark Sun
4/2
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to p...
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The Dark Sun
2009
Scener ur ett vardagsliv
0/0
"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the wo...
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Scener ur ett vardagsliv
2018
Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
7/1
Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's...
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Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
1992
Sofie
4.4/8
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an...
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Sofie
1977
Games of Love and Loneliness
4/3
This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. wh...
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Games of Love and Loneliness
1981
You Love Only Once
5.8/6
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with...
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You Love Only Once
2000
Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
7.5/2
Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous people about their public and private lives. Through the no...
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Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
1982
Dubbelsvindlarna
0/0
Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement waits a million kronor. The result of a successful b...
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Dubbelsvindlarna
1969
Swedish and Underage
4/3
A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men...
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Swedish and Underage
2003
Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
7.3/3
A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."
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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
1975
Monismanien 1995
0/0
In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and...
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Monismanien 1995
1970
The Lie
0/0
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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The Lie
1984
Dirty Story
3.3/3
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
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Dirty Story
1994
The Dancer
10/1
The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline an...
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The Dancer
1978
One on One
0/0
After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor ma...
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One on One
1984
Angela's War
2/1
In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Math...
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Angela's War
1983
Bella Donna
0/0
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose nu...
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Bella Donna
1992
Holocene
0/0
Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an old man, isolated from the outside world in a little mou...
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Holocene
1981
Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
5.2/4
Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is...
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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
2004
Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion
0/0
A documentary about En Passion
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Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion
2004
The Search for Sanity
10/1
A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.
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The Search for Sanity
1997
I sällskap med en clown
0/0
One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.
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I sällskap med en clown
1995
Som löven i Vallombrosa
0/0
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
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Som löven i Vallombrosa
1980
A Dream Play
8/1
"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolica...
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A Dream Play
2004
Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry
0/0
Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on the Criterion Collection box set of the film.
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Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry
2006
Welcome to Verona
6/1
In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her...
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Welcome to Verona
2008
Men and Bergman
0/0
Ingmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that they constitute his greatest source of inspiration. From...
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Men and Bergman
1990
Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
0/0
Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).
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Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
1993
Rosenbaum - Bländverk
1/1
At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.
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Rosenbaum - Bländverk
1993
Rosenbaum - Målbrott
1/1
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.
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Rosenbaum - Målbrott
1993
Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
0/0
At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything ind...
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Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
1984
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
6.2/4
A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
1948
Eva
6/14
Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event tha...
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Eva
2004
Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois
7/1
Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri...
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Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois
1988
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
6/1
A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fata...
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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
1980
Marmalade Revolution
5/2
A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eat...
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Marmalade Revolution
1994
The Forbidden Fruit
0/0
The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.
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The Forbidden Fruit
1946
It Rains on Our Love
6.891/55
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner...
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It Rains on Our Love
1988
Una donna spezzata
0/0
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Una donna spezzata
1978
The Making of Autumn Sonata
0/0
A behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect of the production.
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The Making of Autumn Sonata
1986
Storm, der Schimmelreiter
0/0
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