Henrik Dyfverman

A documentary made to celebrate Stig Järrel's 80th birthday, clips of old performances are mixed with new interviews with Järrel and colleagues.

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.

A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.

Lydia is a problem for her husband. She is wasteful and the family have huge debts. To solve the financial problems, Lydia is planning to marry her daughter to a wealthy acquaintance.

A playful television adaptation of a Renaissance sex comedy in which two Venetian women compete for the attentions of a charming outsider during carnival. Deliberately theatrical and stylized, the film reflects Bergman’s interest in farce and performance.

A young woman faces an arranged marriage imposed by her aunts as the hour of her suitor’s arrival approaches. Adapted for television from Hjalmar Bergman’s one-act play, the film uses intimate staging and close observation to explore coercion and quiet despair.

An elderly gentleman lives alone in a well-appointed residential building, spending his days in habitual routines with neighbors and family. When his former wife—who left years earlier with their child—moves into the apartment above him, long-suppressed tensions resurface, leading to a series of charged encounters.

Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence on to another. Filmed for Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Olle Hedberg’s morality play presents human behavior as a relentless chain of transferred suffering.

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."

Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.

Comedy by William Congrevé. A spiritual and rather mean picture of the noble life in London around 1700.

Swedish TV movie based on the Hjalmar Bergman play.

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.