Liv Ullmann
16 December, 1938
| 1.70 m
Actress
Director
Writer
Biography
Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-1950s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut. She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar Bergman in such films as Persona (1966), Namiętność (1969) and Twarzą w twarz (1976). She also had a successful film career away from Bergman (Abdykacja (1974), Przekątna gońca (1984).
Movies
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Two psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.