Ulla Jacobsson Movies
Swedish stage actress Ulla Jacobsson achieved international fame by way of her second film, One Summer of Happiness (1951). She was greeted with equal critical effusion for her serene performance in Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). Ulla hopscotched between Europe and England for the balance of her career; on the occasion of her one American film Love is a Ball, the... (read more) graceful and talented Jacobsson had to withstand an idiotic ad campaign which tried to redefine her as a Swedish "sex symbol." Long married to a Swedish scientist, Ulla Jacobsson left moviemaking in 1975; six years later she succumbed to bone cancer at the age of 53. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Fox and His Friends
1975
Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) was one of the many films in the short, but prolific, career of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays...
Einer Von Uns Beiden
1974
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My Father's Mistress
PG 1970
A young man learns the identity of his father's mistress after finding a teddy bear in the car after his father's fatal auto accident. He threatens to tell his mother about the...
La Servante
1970
A French couple's marital bliss is interrupted by the presence of a pretty young maid. The husband (Daniel Gelin) is a successful doctor whose wife (Ulla Jacobson) hires Aline...
Bamse
1970
Chris (Bjorn Thambert) is a teenage boy who covets the mistress of his late father. His mother Vera (Ulla Jacobsson) follows her son's mysterious actions and discovers...
Adolphe, Ou L'age Tendre
1968
Henri (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a young filmmmaker who convinces a nobleman to let him use his sprawling chateau to film a movie. The governess to the nobleman's children is a...
Alle Jahre Wieder
1967
A man returns every year to visit his estranged family and friends in this drama dripping with biting social commentary. His 40-year-old buddies are part of the nouveau riche who...
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the...
Zulu
PG 1964
Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a...
Love Is a Ball
1963
In this light romantic comedy Charles Boyer plays the enigmatic Mr. Pimm, a man with a Cupid complex who grooms men to be paired with the ideal wealthy heiress, and once...
Una Domenica d'Estate
1962
A light frolic at the beach with sun and sex both foremost on the scene, this standard comedy by director Giulio Petroni is that much better for the comic work of Ugo...
Unruhige Nacht
1959
In this drama, following the retreat of the Germans from Stalingrad, a deserter is sentenced to die. A pastor speaks to the condemned man and learns that the man deserted to...
Und Das Am Montagmorgen
1959
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager (O.W. Fischer) who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring...
Korkarlen
1959
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Liegaron Dos Hombres
1959
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Crime et Châtiment
1958
Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version by Bernard Bleier. Raskolnikov believes...
Die Letzten Werden Die Ersten Sein
1957
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Smiles of a Summer Night
1955
Bergman's comic masterpiece opens with middle-aged lawyer Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand) again failing to consummate his marriage with the much younger Anne...
Der Pfarrer Von Kirchfeld
1955
Der Pfarrer von Kirchfield (The Parson of Kirchfield) is based on the popular German "folk play" by Ludwig Anzengruber. Bearing a strong resemblance to several other stories...
Hon Dansade en Sommar
1951
Better known as One Summer of Happiness, Hon Dansade en Sommar was the most popular and financially successful of Swedish director Arne Mattson's romantic films. Based on...