6 Films & TV Shows Set In Sweden During The Middle Ages

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  Draug

  🇸🇪 Sweden The 11th Century

  Oft in the woods, is a listener nigh. — In the 11th century a missionary goes missing somewhere in the huge forests bordering the northern parts of Sweden. Among the rescue party chosen to find him is Nanna, a young woman on her first real mission and her first return to the part of the country where she was born. But what they will find deep inside those woods is something else entirely. Something dark. Something ancient. Something evil.

  Released in 2018 • 87 minutes
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  Baltic Tribes

  🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇸🇪 Sweden The 13th Century

  DocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes.

  Released in 2018 • 100 minutes
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  Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End

  🇸🇪 Sweden 🇸🇾 Syria The 13th Century The 12th Century

  Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.

  Released in 2008 • 128 minutes
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  The Seventh Seal

  🇸🇪 Sweden The 14th Century

  When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

  Released in 1957 • 96 minutes
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  The Wind Is My Lover

  🇸🇪 Sweden The 14th Century

  The Savage Story of a Love as Violent as the Murder that is Wrought! — Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.

  Released in 1949 • 104 minutes
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  Sir Arne's Treasure

  🇸🇪 Sweden The 16th Century

  Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.

  Released in 1919 • 106 minutes