THE GIRLS Mai Zetterling’s cinema reached new heights of exuberant experimentation and fierce political engagement with this pointed and playful touchstone of 1960s feminist cinema.

For most Americans, Swedish cinema from the late 1950s through the mid-1980s begins and ends with Ingmar Bergman. His revolutionary reorienting of film inward; his success at the Academy Awards ...

STOCKHOLM — Actress Lena Nyman, who starred in sexually explicit movies that defined Swedish cinema in the 1960s, has died. She was 66. Nyman’s manager Mats Nilemar says she died peacefully in ...