Max von Sydow
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Winner of the **Academy Award** for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father’s need to avenge the death of a child.
2) Foxtrot
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At the beginning of WWII, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. This 1970's classic was directed by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker, Arturo Ripstein, and stars Oscar-nominated actors, Charlotte Rampling, Peter O'Toole, and Max von Sydow.
3) Father
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A man well-settled into the autumn of his life, Joe Mueller is lovingly supported by his daughter Anne and her husband Bobby, a close-knit family ill-prepared for the dark secrets that are about to be uncovered. Tracked down by Holocaust survivor Iya Zetnick (AFI Award winner Julia Blake, Travelling North) Joe is soon exposed as a concentration camp functionary responsible for murdering her family back in Lithuania. Branded a war criminal and subject...
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In Sydney Pollack’s critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies…and his so-called allies. After reporting the murders to his superiors, the organization wants to bring Condor in – but somebody is trying to take him out. In his frantic hunt for answers, and in a desperate run for his life, Turner abducts photographer...
5) The New Land
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Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star in the second half of a sweeping epic of the immigrant experience in THE NEW LAND. Continuing the story begun in The Emigrants, a Scandinavian family struggles to survive and tame the wilderness of Minnesota territory in the 1850s as they cope with a harsh climate, isolation and an inability to speak the language of their adopted country. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner for Best Foreign Language...
