Erland Josephson Archives

The Magician (1958)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 10, 2004Enigmatic Magician

Ingmar Bergman film about a travelling magic show. Bergman is fascinated with the power that illusionists hold and what happens behind the mask. A spellbinding film that is more haunted that most genre films

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Actors: Max Von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Åke Fridell, …

Category: Fantasy

10 March 20044 January 2025 by Roog

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 2, 2001Tormented Artist's Hallucinations

One of the works of the celebrated Ingmar Bergman with Max Von Sydow as an artist tormented by insomnia who starts to slip into disturbing hallucinations where he (and we) can not be certain what is being seen is real

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Actors: Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh, …

Category: Fantasy

2 February 20018 April 2026 by Roog

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jul 29, 2002Family Saga/Ghosts

Ingmar Bergman's final film, a beautifully shot and richly textured family saga that was loosely autobiographical in nature on Bergman's part. Contains considerable fantasy content.

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Actors: Ewa Froling, Jan Malmsjo, Jalle Kulle, Pernilla Wallgren, …

Category: Fantasy

29 July 200221 October 2025 by Roog

The Sacrifice (1986)

Rating: ★★★½

Dec 3, 2003Praying Back the Nuclear Holocaust

Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, a slow and weighty meditation upon questions of faith as one man prays to turn back a nuclear holocaust

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Actors: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Sven Wollter

Category: Fantasy

3 December 200319 August 2024 by Roog

Hanussen (1988)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 11, 2003Charismatic Clairvoyant/Hypnotist

Excellent film based on the real-life figure of Erik Jan Hanussen, a clairvoyant and hypnotist who found fame in Nazi Germany. Featuring a magnetic performance from Klaus Maria Brandauer

Director: Istvan Szabo

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Walter Schmidinger

Category: Fantasy

11 January 200311 March 2026 by Roog