1979
9.0 (2 votes)
1h 37m
Official Website
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Treklövern
Svenska Filminstitutet
Svenska Filminstitutet
Kejsaren
Overview
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
Key Crew
Director: Jösta Hagelbäck
Writer: Jösta Hagelbäck
Director of Photography: Harald Gunnar Paalgard, Sten Holmberg
