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Jan Troell is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Executive producer, Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography Suédois born on 23 july 1931

Jan Troell

Jan Troell
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Nationality Suede
Birth 23 july 1931 (93 years)
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Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.

Biography

Jan Troell travaille pendant plusieurs années comme instituteur, mais commence à réaliser des courts métrages dans les années 1960. Son premier film, Här har du ditt liv (distribué en France sous le titre Les Feux de la vie), 1966, raconte l'histoire d'un adolescent de la classe ouvrière en Suède au début du XX siècle. Le film est basé sur le récit autobiographique d'Eyvind Johnson Le Roman d'Olof (1934-1937). En 1968, son film Ole dole doff remporte l'ours d'or au festival de Berlin.

Ses films les plus connus seront Les Émigrants et Le Nouveau Monde (1971), basés sur l'œuvre de Vilhelm Moberg, qui dépeignent le destin de paysans suédois émigrant aux États-Unis au XIX siècle. Max von Sydow, qui y joue le rôle de Karl Oskar, restera un des acteurs fétiches du réalisateur. Les Émigrants sont nominés aux Oscars.

Troell fait une tentative à Hollywood qui se solde par un échec, avec les films Zandy's Bride (1974), avec Gene Hackman, et Hurricane (1979). Puis, Troell réalise Le Vol de l'aigle (Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd, 1982) qui retrace l'expédition désastreuse en Arctique de S. A. Andrée en ballon en 1897. Le film est nominé aux Oscars dans la catégorie « film étranger ».

Un autre film lui vaut l'Ours d'argent de la réalisation au festival de Berlin : Il Capitano (distribué dans les pays anglophones sous le titre Il Capitano : A Swedish Requiem), 1991), qui déclenche une controverse car il s'inspire d'un fait divers authentique, le triple meurtre d'Åmsele, survenu seulement trois ans plus tôt. Le film insiste sur les rapports psychologiques entre les personnages.

En 1997, il obtient une récompense au Festival du cinéma nordique pour son film Hamsun sur l'écrivain norvégien Knut Hamsun.

Jan Troell a aussi réalisé des documentaires.

En 2001, il sort Så vit som en snö (As White as in Snow en anglais), film dont il signe le scénario avec Jacques Werup et qui raconte la vie d'Elsa Andersson, la première aviatrice suédoise. Le film remporte trois Guldbagge Awards : meilleur film, meilleur réalisateur et meilleure photographie.

Best films

The Flight of the Eagle
The Flight of the Eagle
(1982)
(Director)

Usually with

Eddie Axberg
Eddie Axberg
(6 films)
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow
(8 films)
Maria Heiskanen
Maria Heiskanen
(4 films)
Allan Edwall
Allan Edwall
(4 films)
Klaus Rifbjerg
Klaus Rifbjerg
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jan Troell (18 films)

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Actor

Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams (1988)
, 3h4
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Documentary
Actors Jan Troell
Roles Self
Rating73% 3.655293.655293.655293.655293.65529

Director

Everlasting Moments
Everlasting Moments (2008)
, 2h11
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Ghita Nørby, Amanda Ooms, Antti Reini
Rating74% 3.746763.746763.746763.746763.74676
Au début du XXe siècle, en Suède, une jeune femme gagne un appareil photo lors d'une tombola... Un objet qui ne va pas tarder à changer sa vie.
Hamsun
Hamsun (1996)
, 2h37
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Jesper Christensen, Anette Hoff, Edgar Selge, Bjørnar Teigen
Rating71% 3.594533.594533.594533.594533.59453
Le film raconte la vie de Knut Hamsun, un écrivain norvégien controversé en raison de ses sympathies nazies.
Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams (1988)
, 3h4
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Documentary
Actors Jan Troell
Rating73% 3.655293.655293.655293.655293.65529
Hurricane
Hurricane (1979)
, 2h
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Timothy Bottoms, Mia Farrow, Jason Robards, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, James Keach
Rating47% 2.3649052.3649052.3649052.3649052.364905
Set in the 1920s in Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, Charlotte, an American painter, arrives from Boston on the island of Alaya to visit her father, U. S. Navy Captain Bruckner, whom she hasn't seen in quite some time. Bruckner is the U.S. Congress-sanctioned Governor of the island, and he rules it with a stern, patrician, and thoroughly patronizing attitude towards the natives. Charlotte is somewhat taken aback by her father's rigid adherence to the law, particularly when she tries to intervene on behalf of Bruckner's charge/houseboy Matangi, who has involved Charlotte in a scheme to get Bruckner to toss out a harsh penalty issued to a native man who stole a boat "for love." Bruckner refuses, pish-poshing all this talk of love over the law, and severely reprimands Matangi, much to Charlotte's dismay.
Bang!
Bang! (1977)
, 1h40
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Drama
Actors Susan Hampshire, Håkan Serner, Ulf Palme
Rating61% 3.087363.087363.087363.087363.08736
Un prof solitaire en pleine crise de la quarantaine papillonne d'une relation à l'autre et s'essaie à la composition de musique expérimentale.
Zandy's Bride
Zandy's Bride (1974)
, 1h56
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Santos
Rating62% 3.148393.148393.148393.148393.14839
Zandy Allan is a hard-working cattle rancher in a remote part of the American West who needs a hired hand more than he needs a wife. He sends away for a mail-order bride, a Swedish woman who lives near Minneapolis. Expecting a woman in her 20s, Zandy is disappointed when Hannah Lund turns out to be 32. He is not interested in love, only in work, although this does not keep him from misbehaving around a local woman named Maria. Hannah is here, in his mind, strictly to help Zandy run his ranch and provide future sons. However, the more time he spends with Hannah, the less he comes to treat her as a possession that he has bought, in no small part because of her insistence that she be treated with respect.
The New Land
The New Land (1972)
, 2h15
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Films about immigration, Films about capital punishment
Actors Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall
Rating79% 3.9944153.9944153.9944153.9944153.994415
The film begins where the previous film, The Emigrants ended, with Karl Oskar bringing Kristina and their three small children, Johan, Marta and Harald, along with Karl Oskar's brother Robert, Robert's friend Arvid, through the woods to the land he claimed at Lake Ki Chi Saga. Upon their arrival, Karl Oskar leads them to a small shanty he found on the land, telling them it will provide them shelter until he can build them a farmhouse, and he points out to Kristina how fertile the topsoil is. With three small children and Kristina expecting another child, Karl Oskar pours all their resources into building them a house before winter arrives. He begins clearing the land of the tall pine trees, and with the help of Robert, Arvid and some of their Swedish neighbors, construct for them a small farmhouse.
The Emigrants
The Emigrants (1971)
, 2h15
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Films about immigration, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Monica Zetterlund, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall
Rating79% 3.9943153.9943153.9943153.9943153.994315
The film begins in 1844 in the Swedish province of Smaland, where in Ljuder Parish lives the Nilsson family. They live on a small farm in the woods at Korpamoen, which consists of a small plot of infertile land riddled with stones. They have three children; Their oldest son, Karl Oskar, is in line to inherit the farm from his father Nils, who has been crippled from an injury sustained after a failed attempt to dig a large boulder out of the earth in one of their fields. A daughter, Lydia, works as a maid in the nearby town of Akerby, while their youngest son Robert works as a farmhand at another farm at Nybacken. While Karl Oskar is in the process of inheriting the farm, Nils informs him that he needs a wife to be a successful farmer. Afterwards, Karl Oskar meets a young girl named Kristina Johansdotter, who soon becomes his bride. She moves to Korpamoen to live with him and his parents. In the following years, Karl Oskar and Kristina start a family, starting with a daughter, Anna, followed by a son, Johan, then another daughter, Marta, and finally another son, Harald. Times are difficult: there is bad weather, the harvests are poor, and hunger prevails. Karl Oskar's rebellious younger brother Robert first comes across the idea of emigrating to America, tired of being treated poorly as a farmhand. He first asks his friend Arvid, another farmhand at Nybacken to come along with him, who eagerly agrees to do so, but the pair's hopes are dashed when they realize they haven't the money needed for their passage. Robert confronts Karl Oskar about selling his share of the farm in order to afford the passage, only to find out that Karl Oskar himself had been considering the idea of moving his family to the United States. Despite the offerings of a better life, Kristina adamantly rejects the notion, not wanting to leave her homeland as well as being fearful of risking the lives of their four young children on the ocean. However, one night, hunger compels the couple's eldest daughter Anna to secretly eat food that was not ready to be eaten. She eats so much that it causes her stomach to burst, and she dies the following morning.