Max von Sydow ( /vɒn ˈsiːdoʊ/;Swedish: [fɔn ˈsyːdɔv]; born 10 April 1929) is a Swedish-French actor, born in Sweden and now holds dual Swedish/French citizenship. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He has performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French, and Spanish. Von Sydow received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award in 1954, the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005 and the Légion d'honneur in 2010.
Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scene in which he plays chess with Death), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. In 2012, he was nominated a second time, for his supporting role in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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Riaz, a 14 year old dropout living in a small village in Southern Pakistan falls in love with the charming voice of a radio presenter. Heer Khan presents a late night show in nearby Mirpurkhas and enjoys a flirtatious reputation among her male audience in the village. The film shows his journey towards Heer Khan and in the process, his entanglement in that larger web called life.
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The main theme of ARAHET is emigration, a huge worldwide problem of many nations. There are a lot of emotional psychological solutions in the film concerning friendship, love, patriotism, human relations and other issues. An Armenian guy Avetik by name who lives in the USA, once finds a small path near a huge high-speed freeway. A path which takes him straight to his motherland. This is the dream of any emigrant... The further development of this surreal drama is a conflict between the present and the past, real friendship and relationships, love and disappointment. The realities of modern American life are relieved in the movie through the conversations of Los Angeles taxi-cab passengers of different backgrounds. This is a movie good not only for national but also international audience.
When a runaway girl calls home in the middle of the night, will anyone be listening?