Pernilla August Movies

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th...

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this...

The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla that picks Jonna for adoption. It...

The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.

A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.

John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A...

Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and...

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...

Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water...

As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped....

One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This...

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they...

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with...

A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of...

Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant...

The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the UN. In the last 100 years,...

A woman helps a prisoner free at Rome's airport and then falls in love with him.

A beautiful, wise and fairly fat man at his best age — that’s Karlsson on the Roof. And he isn’t very shy. His door sign says "The...

A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two...