Åke Fridell

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.

An 1840s Swedish farming family struggle with their unyielding land and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.

A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.

A witch's daughter take revenge on a vicar and bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection.

About serf wife Maria, called Rya-Rya, her life from a young beautiful girl with dreams of love to a worn-out mother, who only lives for her children.

A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland. In a port tavern a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors. Later in the evening he is found dead.