7 Movies Starring Lena Nyman

I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-03-10

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (2665 Reviews)

Director:

Vilgot Sjèman

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

I Am Curious (Blue)

I Am Curious (Blue)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-03-11

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (919 Reviews)

Director:

Vilgot Sjèman

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.

Release the Prisoners to Spring

Release the Prisoners to Spring

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-12-06

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (736 Reviews)

Director:

Tage Danielsson

Fullplot:

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.

Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-10-01

Languages:

Swedish, English

Countries:

France, West Germany, Sweden

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (13656 Reviews)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Genres:

DramaMusic

Fullplot:

After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each other.

Ronja Robbersdaughter

Ronja Robbersdaughter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-05-23

Languages:

Swedish, English

Countries:

Sweden, Norway

Runtime:

126 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (8155 Reviews)

Director:

Tage Danielsson

Cast:

Writer:

Astrid Lindgren (novel)

Astrid Lindgren (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Borka and his band and Mattis's band of robbers are rivals. Birk, his parents and their band live in the wild in Mattisforrest. They move in to Metis-stronghold, which belonged to his ancestors, in an attempt to escape being caught by the king's men. The children have to learn to live in the woods.

I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-03-10

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (2667 Reviews)

Director:

Vilgot Sjèman

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

Ronja Robbersdaughter

Ronja Robbersdaughter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-05-23

Languages:

Swedish, English

Countries:

Sweden, Norway

Runtime:

126 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (8169 Reviews)

Director:

Tage Danielsson

Cast:

Writer:

Astrid Lindgren (novel)

Astrid Lindgren (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Borka and his band and Mattis's band of robbers are rivals. Birk, his parents and their band live in the wild in Mattisforrest. They move in to Metis-stronghold, which belonged to his ancestors, in an attempt to escape being caught by the king's men. The children have to learn to live in the woods.

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