Swedish Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1980 documentary, showing director Wim Wenders and his subject, the director Nicholas Ray. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Wenders joins Ray, his friend and hero, in New York City to discuss Ray's dying wish to make a film about a painter with a terminal illness who… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph of cinematographer Sven Nykvist and director Ingmar Bergman with a camera crew on the set of the 1976 film. Newspaper clippings in Swedish affixed to the verso, along with a November 28, 1976, date stamp. Ingmar Bergman's only Hollywood film and second English-language release, about a Jewish-American circus acrobat struggling… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 television movie, which premiered on April 24, 1973, on CBS. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Not to be confused with the 1970 British television movie directed by Alan Bridges. A successful architect and his wife, an academic, face the deterioration of their relationship… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Gunnar Hellstrom's address on the title page in manuscript ink. German and Italian ambassadors meet in Stockholm in discuss how neutral Sweden will work for the Axis war effort in 1943, with a particular focus on acquisition of the Swedish steel industry. Set in Stockholm. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Four vintage borderless double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1968 film, all showing actress Monica Nordquist in various states of undress. The titular Carmilla falls in love with her stepfather, who is shortly thereafter killed in a car accident, leading her to seek revenge against the driver responsible. 11.5 x 9.5… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1960. Vintage program for the French release of the 1960 Swedish film. Text and titles in French. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, with director Ingmar Bergman receiving a Special Mention at Cannes. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 18 pages. Near Fine in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few copied manuscript annotations, but without copied hole shadows, thus made from a master. Laid in with the script is a business card for screenwriter Ragnar Lasse Henriksen. Bound in after the script are seven pages in Swedish addressing a proposed budget for the film. Based on… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few copied manuscript annotations, but without hole shadows, made from a master. Laid in with the script is a business card for screenwriter Ragnar Lasse Henriksen. A meditation on torture and governmental violence told through the perspective of a former torture victim. Set in… Read more about this item

Stockholm, Sweden: AB Svensk Filmindustri, 1968. Treatment script for the 1969 film. With a few small manuscript ink annotations to the title page and throughout, most noting grammatical revisions. A newly divorced man befriends a woman whose husband and son have recently been killed in a car accident, gradually beginning a relationship in spite of their mutual… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1949. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1949 film, showing actress Eva Henning in a negligée. Ingmar Bergman's seventh film, about the troubled romantic and sexual experiences of several Swedish adults. Based on the 1948 short story collection by Birgit Tengroth, who also appeared as Viola in the film. Shot on location in Hamburg,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Ingmar Bergman directing actress Bibi Andersson on the set of the 1960 film, with script supervisor Ulla Furas looking on to the left. With a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a stamp noting No. 60-0-279, and the stamp of uncredited still photographer Lennart Nilsson. The Devil… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri [SF], 1958. Collection of 14 vintage black and white oversize double-weight studio still photographs from the 1958 film. A traveling magic show led by a depressed, fraudulent illusionist (Max von Sydow) faces opposition from a small town's authorities, who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm,… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet, 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing director Ingmar Bergman talking between takes with actors Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. Mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamp of Svenska Dagbladet. A psychiatrist is afflicted by an inexplicable depression while on vacation. Desperate to escape her torment, she has an… Read more about this item

Stockholm: European Pressphoto Agencies Union, 1967. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1968 film, showing actress Liv Ullmann wearing a parka on the set. Printed mimeo snipe and stamps of European Pressphoto Agencies and Agence France-Presse on the verso. Two former violinists are caught up in the trauma of civil war despite their desire to live simply… Read more about this item

Stockholm, Sweden: Concorde Film, 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of the script written across the folder in manuscript pencil, and a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations (presumably secretarial) throughout correcting grammatical errors. Laid in with the script is a three-page typed summary of the story, and a two-page typed letter addressed from… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Omega Film, 1985. Draft script for the 2005 Swedish film. Text in English. A young man recalls the strange, emotionally intense year he spent working as the sous chef in the claustrophobic galley of a ship headed for Cape Town. A very early draft of the script, written twenty years before the film's release. Set and… Read more about this item

Berlin: Personafilm, 1978. Post-production script for the 1978 film, noted in brown manuscript ink on the front wrapper as "P.D. copy." With manuscript ink annotations throughout, mostly regarding word choice and grammatical revisions, likely in preparation for the film's release in English. Included with the script are two copies of dialogue from reels one and six. Text in English. … Read more about this item

Duisburg, Germany: Atlas Filmverleih, 1964. First Edition. First Edition of Atlas Filmheft double issue booklet number 32 on the 1963 film, text in German. Featuring 18 essays, an Ingmar Bergman filmography, and illustrated with black and white film still photographs throughout. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption, preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly"… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. First Edition. First Edition publicity manual, reminiscent in content to a press kit, but with much more detail. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis to advertise legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and his psychological drama "The Serpent's Egg" (1976). Profusely photo-illustrated with over 60 black and white images, including film stills and on the set photography of… Read more about this item

New York: Film Forum 2, 1988. Portrait photograph of director Maurtiz Stiller, circa 1930, to promote Film Forum 2's two-week series "Sjostrom & Stiller: The Screen's First Masters," which ran from November 11 through November 24, 1988, at Film Forum 2 in New York. Maurtiz Stiller, born in Helsinki, Finland, was a Swedish director, writer, and actor,… Read more about this item