Swedish Silent Cinema: Victor Sjöström & Mauritz Stiller
January 16–February 28, 2026
This series features a selection of the best films from the Golden Age of Swedish silent cinema, presented in 35mm archival prints and digital restorations, along with an illustrated lecture (free admission) on Victor Sjöström by Jon Wengström, Senior Curator of the Archival Collections at the Swedish Film Institute.
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Mauritz Stiller: Gosta Berling’s Saga, 1924
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Victor Seastrom: The Wind, 1928
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Victor Sjöström: The Phantom Carriage, 1921
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Victor Sjöström: The Outlaw and his Wife, 1918
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Erotikon
Mauritz Stiller
Sweden, 1920Imported 35mm Print
Friday, January 16, 7 PMIntroduced by Jon Wengström; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsErotikon is set entirely in an urban milieu and openly challenges social taboos in the story of a wife simultaneously courting two lovers in a comic portrayal of love and infidelity.
Jon Wengström’s Lecture on Victor Sjöström
Free Admission
Saturday, January 17, 4 PMIllustrated Lecture by Jon WengströmView DetailsA ninety-minute illustrated lecture with clips, rare shorts, and fragments that put Victor Sjöström and his films into context, as well as sketch out his career both as a director and as an actor.
The Wings & Ingeborg Holm
Sunday, January 18, 1 PMIntroduced by Jon Wengström; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsIngeborg Holm is one of Sweden’s first social protest films and a masterpiece of prewar cinema. Preceded by queer-themed The Wings, a very free adaptation of Mikaël, a novella by Danish writer Herman Bang.
The Outlaw and His Wife
Victor Sjöström
Sweden, 1918Imported 35mm Print
Wednesday, January 21, 7 PMIntroduced by Jon Wengström; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsA thief, a young widow, and their love outside the law: “Without a doubt the most beautiful film in the world!” declared French avant-gardist Louis Delluc.
Sir Arne’s Treasure
Mauritz Stiller
Sweden, 1919Digital Restoration
Wednesday, January 28, 7 PMIntroduced by Linda Haverty Rugg; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsThis tinted restoration illuminates the tension between the exquisite attention to textural detail and the ghostly immaterial special effects in some of the most spectacular scenes and images in the history of Swedish silent cinema.
The Phantom Carriage
Victor Sjöström
Sweden, 1921Digital Restoration
Sunday, February 1, 1 PMIntroduced by Linda Haverty Rugg; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsAn alcoholic’s life is changed through love and an encounter with the Grim Reaper in this film of uncanny beauty and inventiveness, which Ingmar Bergman called “the keystone of my cinematographic world.”
Gösta Berling’s Saga (Parts 1 & 2)
Mauritz Stiller
Sweden, 1924Digital Restoration
Sunday, February 8, 4:30 PMIntroduced by Mark SandbergView DetailsRemembered as the first major performance of nineteen-year-old Greta Garbo as one of Gösta Berling’s love interests, the film caught the eye of Louis B. Mayer, who brought both Mauritz Stiller and Garbo to Hollywood, making Gösta Berling’s Saga Stiller’s final movie in Sweden.
A Man There Was & The Wind
Sunday, February 15, 4 PMIntroduced by Mark Sandberg; Judith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsSet during the Napoleonic Wars, this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s nationalistic poem is distinguished by stunning land and seascape photography. With the director’s Hollywood epic The Wind, wherein naive Virginia belle Lillian Gish relocates to windswept Texas.
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957Saturday, February 28, 4 PMIntroduced by Linda Haverty RuggView DetailsThe film that cemented Ingmar Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).