In the late 1960s and early 1970s, von Sydow was often paired with Liv Ullmann in Bergman films. In 1968's "Hour of the Wolf" ('), von Sydow played an artist living on an isolated island with his pregnant wife, played by Ullmann. In the same year, the two appeared in the drama "Shame" ('), about a couple (both former musicians) living on a farm on an island during a war. Von Sydow and Ullmann returned for the 1969 Bergman film "The Passion of Anna" ('). In 1971 and 1972, von Sydow again starred alongside Ullmann in the Jan Troell epic duology, "The Emigrants" (') "The New Land" (""), the story of a Swedish peasant family that emigrates to America in the mid-19th century.