The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies.
Writer: Vilhelm Moberg
Director: Per Sjöstrand
Gustaf Karlsson (Rask)
Ida
Nergårds-Anna
Johan Klang
Oskar Olsson
Tilda
Kapten Jägerschiöld
Axel
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8 episodes
A wild stooge gets scratched skin and sleeps over a sunday morning.
Runtime: 467 minHow Raskens get cured and how Ida is getting both sad and happy.
Runtime: 467 minHow Ida walks seven times around a curb and Raskens learns the sixth commandment.
Runtime: 467 minAbout an itinerant comes by with lovely fabrics and how a boy stops screaming.
Runtime: 467 minHow a inspection is being made, how Raskens get a new window and a boy gets a red harmonica
Runtime: 467 minRaskens homecoming is being delayed, and Karl IX comes to the soldier cottage. Klangen is making up a dance and finds something on his attic
Runtime: 467 minA gossip monger. A farmer does a urgent transport, and a korpral gets a secretively delivery.
Runtime: 467 minRasken does something he regrets, and how he manage it for himself in the old ages and about the outcome.
Runtime: 467 min