Films and TV series directed by Jan Troell

The Emigrants

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 8

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

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Everlasting Moments

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

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Here Is Your Life

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1966 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

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Tune

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Pianist Hans Pålsson is asked to write music for his friend Claes Eklundh's artwork. A documentary which shows the two men and their creating processes, and their interpretations of each others art.

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Who Saw Him Die?

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.

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City

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.7

For nine years in the 1950s, Jan Troell worked as a teacher at the Sorgenfri primary school in Malmö (an experience he drew on for his study of a teacher's relationship with his class, Ole dole doff (...

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As White as in Snow

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an...

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The Last Sentence

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His on...

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