Diddi Werner is an orphan and has been raised by her aunts Lotten and Amalia. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sweden
Soviet Bus Stops (2022) Kristoffer Hegnsvad, Christopher Herwig, Victor Sheptunov Illarionovich, Konstantinas Jakovlevas-Mateckis
Architecture, like anything else during the Soviet period, was under strict centralized supervision. Read More »
The Price of Betrayal / Judaspengar (1915) Victor Sjöström, Egil Eide, John Ekman, Kaja Eide Norena
Holk, an unemployed mans wife is taken ill. He must find food for her. Read More »
Lovely Is the Summer Night / Ljuvlig är sommarnatten (1961) Arne Mattsson, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Per Oscarsson, Folke Sundquist
In a small town two people are about to get married. Read More »
Iris and the Lieutenant / Iris och löjtnantshjärta (1946) Alf Sjöberg, Mai Zetterling, Alf Kjellin, Åke Claesson
The officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his upper-class relatives. Read More »
The Father / En far (1988) Bo Widerberg
A TV production of Strindberg’s play Fadren about a tragic family feud. Read More »
The Serpent’s Way (1986) Bo Widerberg
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Read More »
The Baby Carriage / 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 »
As White as in Snow (2001) Så vit som en snö
Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer’s daughter Read More »
Hugo and Josephine / Hugo och Josefin (1967) Kjell Grede, Fredrik Becklén, Marie Öhman, Beppe Wolgers
Josefin is a six year old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. Read More »