A TV production of Strindberg’s play Fadren about a tragic family feud. Read More »
Tag Archives: Bo Widerberg
The Serpent’s Way AKA Ormens väg på hälleberget (1986) Bo Widerberg, Stina Ekblad, Stellan Skarsgård, Reine Brynolfsson
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Read More »
The Baby Carriage AKA Barnvagnen (1963) Bo Widerberg, Inger Taube, Thommy Berggren, Lars Passgård
Following his manifesto for a new Swedish cinema, director Widerberg started his career with this realist tale Read More »
Victoria (1979) Bo Widerberg, Michaela Jolin, Stephan Schwartz, Pia Skagermark
Norway 1880s. Johannes – a milner’s son – is a boy closely connected to nature Read More »
Adalen Riots AKA Ådalen 31 (1969) Bo Widerberg, Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. Read More »
Elvira Madigan (1967) Bo Widerberg, Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. Read More »
The Butt AKA Fimpen (1974) Bo Widerberg, Johan Bergman, Monica Zetterlund, Magnus Härenstam
Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. Read More »
Come on Roland! AKA Heja Roland! (1966) Bo Widerberg, Thommy Berggren, Mona Malm, Ulf Palme
Young Roland wants to write. In desperate need of money, he takes job at an advertising agency. Read More »
Mannen på taket / Man on the Roof (1976) Bo Widerberg, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg, Action, Crime, Drama
Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. Read More »
Mannen från Mallorca / Man from Majorca (1984) Bo Widerberg, Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Håkan Serner, Action, Crime, Thriller
In Stockholm, on St. Lucy’s feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Read More »
Lust och fägring stor / All Things Fair (1995) Bo Widerberg, Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brömssen, Drama, Romance, War
Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a god-sent relief from her drunk and miserable husband. They start a passionate and forbidden relationship – but it has consequences they never could have expected.
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Joe Hill (1971) Bo Widerberg, Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Biography, Drama, History
In the early 1900’s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to get on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
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