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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 (92 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 (1982)
(Director)

Usually with

Eddie Axberg
Eddie Axberg
(6 films)
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow
(8 films)
Allan Edwall
Allan Edwall
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jan Troell (18 films)

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Scriptwriter

Who Saw Him Die?, 1h50
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Actors Per Oscarsson, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Bengt Ekerot, Kerstin Tidelius
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3933753.3933753.3933753.3933753.393375
Le film traite des problèmes de discipline entre un professeur et ses élèves dans une école de Malmö.
Here Is Your Life, 2h49
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Historical
Actors Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost, Ulla Akselson, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall, Åke Fridell
Roles Ecrivain
Rating72% 3.6404553.6404553.6404553.6404553.640455
Tout au nord de la Suède, dans la région entre Luleå et Kiruna, dans les années 1914 à 1918.

Producer

Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem, 1h50
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Antti Reini, Maria Heiskanen
Roles Executive producer
Rating62% 3.147963.147963.147963.147963.14796

Cameraman

Everlasting Moments, 2h11
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Ghita Nørby, Amanda Ooms, Antti Reini
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74% 3.7468253.7468253.7468253.7468253.746825
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
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.594033.594033.594033.594033.59403
Le film raconte la vie de Knut Hamsun, un écrivain norvégien controversé en raison de ses sympathies nazies.
Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem, 1h50
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Antti Reini, Maria Heiskanen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.147963.147963.147963.147963.14796
Land of Dreams, 3h4
Directed by Jan Troell
Genres Documentary
Actors Jan Troell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.655553.655553.655553.655553.65555
The Flight of the Eagle, 2h25
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Henric Holmberg, Ulla Sjöblom
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5913753.5913753.5913753.5913753.591375
Film sur Salomon August Andrée.
The New Land, 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
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79% 3.99363.99363.99363.99363.9936
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, 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
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79% 3.993733.993733.993733.993733.99373
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.
Who Saw Him Die?, 1h50
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Actors Per Oscarsson, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Bengt Ekerot, Kerstin Tidelius
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3933753.3933753.3933753.3933753.393375
Le film traite des problèmes de discipline entre un professeur et ses élèves dans une école de Malmö.