In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presented two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs.
In this film directed by Liv Ullmann from a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, loosely based on the legendary Swedish director’s own experiences of adultery, Faithless looks at an aging director named Bergman (Erland Josephson) as he conjures a character, Marianne,
In the second film directed by Liv Ullmann (1995), based on the classic novel by Sigrid Undset, Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway, who has grown up in harmony with the ideals of the time:
Based on the powerful play by Ruth Wolff about Queen Christina, who abdicated the throne to convert to Catholicism, Liv Ullmann and Academy Award-winner Peter Finch (Network) star as a queen and cardinal who share a forbidden love in this
When the hardboiled late 19th-century rancher Zandy (Gene Hackman) decides to take a mail-order bride, he isn’t especially interested in love; instead, he wants a woman who can bear his child and aid him in the daily struggles of country
Scenes From A Marriage explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne (Liv Ullmann), a family lawyer specializing in divorce, and Johan (Erland Josephson), spanning a period of 10 years. Despite seeming to have it all, Marianne and Johan’s happiness is
In this epic sequel to the 1971 film The Emigrants, Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While building a farmhouse and clearing and
In this monumental mid-19th century epic by Jan Troell, based on the first two books of Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg’s Upon a Good Land, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydown star as Kristina and Kar Oskar Nilsson, a Swedish couple
In this adaptation of the Norwegian trilogy Bread of Night by Johan Falkberget, the young An-Magritt has cultivated exceptional survival skills from a young age. Orphaned by her mother’s suicide following public humiliiation for an affair with a soldier — and raised
In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s event, Liv
In celebration of Liv Ullmann, recipient of the 2019 ASF Gold Medal, Scandinavia House presents two special evenings with the acclaimed actress and director, followed by a retrospective of her roles and work with leading auteurs. At tonight’s opening event,