A TV production of Strindberg’s play Fadren about a tragic family feud. Read More »
Tag Archives: Thommy Berggren
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 »
Life at Any Cost AKA Liv till varje pris (1998) Stefan Jarl, Thommy Berggren, Roy Andersson, Kalle Boman
A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. 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 »
Sunday’s Children AKA Söndagsbarn (1992) Daniel Bergman, Henrik Linnros, Thommy Berggren, Lena Endre
The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden 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 »
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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