Acting
Georg Oddner
Born 1923-10-17 · Stockholm, Sweden
Acting credits
5.4Inspired 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 aviatrix.
As White as in Snow
2001
7.1Sören 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.
Who Saw Him Die?
1968
10.0Jan Troell portrays the friend and photographer Georg Oddner. For more than half a century, from 1950 arriving in New York, Georg Oddner has lived with his camera.
Presence
2003
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Snigeln
2006
6.0Shot months before September 11, "Reflection 2001" captures the Twin Towers as part of the daily rhythm of New York life—vast, immovable, and taken for granted. Re-edited after the attacks, Jan Troell transforms these images into a quiet cinematic requiem, using music and montage alone to mourn what was lost and to contemplate how suddenly the familiar can vanish.
Reflection 2001
2002
Behind the camera
7.0The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.
The Flight of the Eagle
1982
6.2A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.
Bang!
1977