Arne Sucksdorff: Samlade verk (DVD)

THREE DOCUMENTARIES, ONE FEATURE FILM, ONE TV SERIES AND A TOTAL OF 16 SHORT FILMS – AWARDED AN OSCAR AND THREE PRIZES IN CANNES, ONE IN BERLIN AND ONE IN VENICE.

INTRODUCTIONS BY STEFAN JARL

Swedish film history has produced many fine documentary filmmakers, but Arne Sucksdorff (1917-2001) is undoubtedly the greatest of them all. Sucksdorff lived for long periods in the jungles of South America and in the 1940s gained a reputation as one of the world's foremost nature filmmakers. The short film "People in the City," a poetic depiction of a summer day in Stockholm, became the first Swedish film to win an Oscar. Several of his other short films are now considered some of the most remarkable in history and have been honored at the world's three largest film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. His first feature film, "The Great Adventure," also took home an impressive double award in both Cannes and Berlin.

Studio S is proud to mark Arne Sucksdorff's 100th anniversary by bringing together his complete works of both short and feature films, as well as his two-hour television series, in a single box set.

The box set was awarded BEST DVD (THE PETER VON BAGH AWARD) at the IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2018 film festival.

The Great Adventure(1953)

A lynx wanders from northern Sweden to central Sweden, through a landscape transformed by industrialization and urbanization. In addition to the lynx, the film follows two boys, a fox with five cubs, an otter cub, capercaillies, and a few owls. Awarded at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals.

A Jungle Book (1957)

A story about people and man-eating tigers in a distant land. Filmed on location in the Bastar jungle region of central India. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, it was critically acclaimed and is still considered by many to be a masterpiece. With music by Ravi Shankar (Polar Prize 1998).

The Boy in the Tree (1961)

16-year-old Göte rebels against parental authority and eventually also against his peers, in whom he finds only greater bondage. He carries his own dream of freedom, which he ultimately tries desperately to realize. Feature film with Tomas Bolme, Heinz Hopf, and Björn Gustafsson. With music by Quincy Jones (Polar Music Prize 1994).

My Home is Copacabana (1965)

A lyrical reportage, halfway between a feature film and a documentary, about four parentless children in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their games, optimism, and zest for life seem unquenchable despite the constant struggle for food. Sucksdorff was awarded a Guldbagge for his direction.p>

In four half-hour episodes, Arne and his wife Maria Sucksdorff portray the wetlands of Pantanal, south of the Amazon jungle in Brazil, home to some of the world's most unique flora and fauna.

Short films (1940-1953)

All of Sucksdorff's short films. These include the Oscar-winning "People in the City" (1947), the Venice Film Festival award-winning "Departure (1948) and the three Cannes award-winning Shadows over Snow (1945), Indian Village (1951) and The Wind and the River (1953).