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His favorite films are 8½ (1963), Hugo (2011), Jules and Jim (1962), The Mirror (1975), The Misfits (1961), Modern Times (1936), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Some Like It Hot (1959) and Hour of the Wolf (1968).

Signed the appeal Swedish Film Workers for Peace and Freedom in an Independent Palestine.

Frequently casts Max von Sydow.

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Liv Ullmann in The Emigrants (1971).

Retrospective at the 9th New Horizons Film Festival (2009).

He has directed one film that has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Emigrants (1971).