
Vilgot Sjöman
Known for department: Directing
Birthday: 1924-12-02 – 2006-04-09
Place of birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Biography
David Harald Vilgot Sjöman was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally-tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman with the avant garde style of the French New Wave. He is best known as the director of the films 491 (1964), I Am Curious (Yellow) (in Swedish, "Jag är nyfiken - gul") (1967), and I Am Curious (Blue) ("Jag är nyfiken - blå") (1968), which stretched the boundaries of acceptability of what could then be shown on film, deliberately treating their subjects in a provocative and explicit manner.
Known for

Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1964Self
I Am Curious (Yellow)
1967Vilgot Sjöman
I Am Curious (Blue)
1968Vilgot Sjöman
Filmstaden
2001Self Portrait '92
1992Self
Inför Markisinnan de Sade
1992
Lena
2021Self (archive footage)
You're Lying!
1969
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
1963SelfLars Forssell x 2
2000
A Testimony About Her
1963the reporter
Shame
1968TV Interviewer
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005Self
Feature 136
2018Himself (archival footage)
Palme
2012Self (archive footage)
Till Sex Do Us Part
1971Man
Stimulantia
1967
Traveling with Father
1969