Barbro Kollberg Movies
An internationally renowned Swedish conductor returns to his childhood village and agrees to help the local church choir hone their singing skills. The harder Daniel works draws out the singers' hidden inner talents, the more he realizes just what he's been missing by living in the big city. Before long he's made new friends, and found a new love. A heartfelt tale of inspiration and discovery, As It Is In Heaven was Sweden's official submission for Best Foreign Film at the 2005 Academy Awards. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael Nyqvist, Frida Hallgren, (more)
- 1995
Whatever happened to those idealists who lived in 1968? This downbeat Swedish drama offers an answer. The story begins as a narrator tells how the corpse of his friend Stig Dahlman was found in a cellar. The narrator feels much guilt because he lost touch with Stig before his death. Now he is trying to find out why his buddy was so brutally murdered. Dahlman's life is then presented in flashback. Back in the late '60s, Dahlman had been idealistic and had much hope for a better future. Before he died, he saw visions of young men, who may or may not have been his unborn children. In the end, he is seen being tortured to death at the hands of some other young men. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1992
Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille August while the film was in progress) is from a well-to-do family. Despite the expected class differences and personality clashes, love-or at least mutual understanding-prevails. But after a harsh, spare few years as the wife of a clergyman, Anna yearns for the more bountiful pleasures of her family home. Bergman writes himself into the proceedings as a mewling infant. The current three-hour theatrical version of Best Intentions (original title: Den Goda Viljan) was simultaneously prepared as a six-hour TV miniseries, which ran in Europe, Scandanavia, and Japan. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, (more)
- 1946
Literally translated, the title of this early Ingmar Bergman effort is It's Raining on Our Love. Though hardly representative of the best that Bergman would have to offer, the film was highly regarded by critics and moviegoers alike when it first appeared in 1947. Put simply, the story theorizes that just because someone commits a criminal act, that someone isn't necessarily a criminal. Barbro Kollberg plays the unfortunate soul whose solitary indiscretion seriously jeopardizes his future happiness. The plot Det Regnar pa Var Karlek is "explained" throughout by an ersatz stage manager, the sort of theatrical device that Bergman would abandon as he became a more self-confident filmmaker. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, (more)
