Award-winning Norwegian novelist Dag Solstad joins us with author Rebecca Dinerstein for a book talk on his newest novel, an existential murder mystery titled Professor Andersen’s Night. On Christmas Eve, 55-year-old professor Pål Andersen sits alone in his living room, drinking coffee and cognac and lost in a train of thought, when he glances out the window and […]
TUE—November 19—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 191 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. In this monumental mid-19th century epic by Jan Troell, based on the first two books of Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg’s Upon a Good Land, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydown star as Kristina and Kar Oskar Nilsson, a Swedish couple whose […]
FRI—November 22—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 202 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. In this epic sequel to the 1971 film The Emigrants, Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow) and his wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann), having journeyed to America from Sweden, are now living in the wilderness of Minnesota. While building a farmhouse and clearing and farming […]
SAT—November 23—2 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 169 min. In Swedish with English Subtitles. Scenes From A Marriage explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne (Liv Ullmann), a family lawyer specializing in divorce, and Johan (Erland Josephson), spanning a period of 10 years. Despite seeming to have it all, Marianne and Johan’s happiness is a facade […]
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last […]
WED—December 4—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 97 min. In English. When the hardboiled late 19th-century rancher Zandy (Gene Hackman) decides to take a mail-order bride, he isn’t especially interested in love; instead, he wants a woman who can bear his child and aid him in the daily struggles of country living, whether tending cattle or […]
FRI—December 6—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 103 min. In English. Based on the powerful play by Ruth Wolff about Queen Christina, who abdicated the throne to convert to Catholicism, Liv Ullmann and Academy Award-winner Peter Finch (Network) star as a queen and cardinal who share a forbidden love in this compelling true story of lust […]
WED–December 11—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 188 min. In Norwegian with English subtitles. In the second film directed by Liv Ullmann (1995), based on the classic novel by Sigrid Undset, Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway, who has grown up in harmony with the ideals of the time: strong […]
FRI—December 13—6:30 PM $12 ($7 ASF Members) 154 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. In this film directed by Liv Ullmann from a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, loosely based on the legendary Swedish director’s own experiences of adultery, Faithless looks at an aging director named Bergman (Erland Josephson) as he conjures a character, Marianne, and […]
