Arne Sucksdorff box: Collected works

THREE DOCUMENTARIES, ONE FEATURE, ONE TV SERIES AND A WHOLE 16 SHORT FILMS – AWARDED WITH AN OSCAR AS WELL AS THREE AWARDS IN CANNES, ONE IN BERLIN AND ONE IN VENICE .

INTRODUCTIONS BY STEFAN JARL.

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

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 he also gained a reputation in the 1940s as one of the world's absolute 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 be awarded an Oscar. Several of his other short films are still seen today as some of the most remarkable in history and have been awarded prizes 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 of awards in both Cannes and Berlin. Studio S is proud to be able to collect Arne Sucksdorff's complete works of both short and feature films as well as his 2-hour series for television in one box set.

The Great Adventure (1953) A lynx wanders from Norrland to Central Sweden, across a landscape changed by industrialization and urbanization. In addition to the lynx, the film follows two boys, a fox with five cubs, an otter cub, capercaillie cocks and some owls. Awarded at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals.

A Jungle Tale (1957) A story about humans and man-eating tigers in a distant land. Filmed on location in the jungles of Bastar in central India. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, it became a critically acclaimed film that is still considered a masterpiece by many today. 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, among whom he only finds even greater lack of freedom. He carries his own dream of freedom, which he ultimately desperately tries to realize. Feature film with Tomas Bolme, Heinz Hopf and Björn Gustafsson. With music by Quincy Jones (Polar Prize 1994).

My Home is Copacabana (1965) A lyrical reportage, somewhere between a feature film and a documentary, about four orphaned children in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their play, optimism and joy of life seem inextinguishable despite the constant struggle for food for the day. Sucksdorff was awarded a Guldbagge for his direction.

On the Backside of the Earth (1972) In four half-hour episodes, Arne and his wife Maria Sucksdorff portray the wetlands of the Pantanal, south of the Amazon jungle in Brazil, where some of the world's most unique animal and plant life is found.

Short films (1940-1953). All of Sucksdorff's short films. Including the Oscar-winning "People in the City" (1947), the Venice-prized "Breaking Out" (1948) and the three Cannes-prized "Shadows Over the Snow" (1945), "Indian Village" (1951) and "The Wind and the River" (1953).