Athenafilm

A small local radio station in the city of Trelleborg, Sweden. Very important to its listeners. A friend in the air.

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.

Pianist Hans Pålsson is asked to write music for his friend Claes Eklundh's artwork. A documentary which shows the two men and their creating processes, and their interpretations of each others art.

Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw things, a world characterized by an enigmatic beauty never previously formulated in such a way.

The story of a wife who, due to an identity crisis, leaves home and man.

Jan Troell portrays the friend and photographer Georg Oddner. For more than half a century, from 1950 arriving in New York, Georg Oddner has lived with his camera.