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Swedish Marriage Manual (1969)

February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Ur karlekens sprak
Year: 1969
Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: English (dubbed)
Subtitles: None
Genre: Documentary | Drama

Director: Torgny Wickman

Cast:
Inge Hegeler
Sten Hegeler
Maj-Brith Bergström-Walan
Sture Cullhed
Kim Anderzon
Julie Bernby
Ewert Granholm
Göthe Grefbo
Margaretha Henriksson
Berit Hindersson
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs … Harmonious Wife
Gösta Krantz
Conny Lind
Lennart Lindberg
Lasse Lundberg

Plot/Synopsis:
A modern advanced film about sexual education an behaviour based on the clinical research made by famous American and Swedish doctors. The film centres around a panel; Inge and Sten Hegeler, Maj-Brith Bergstroem-Walan and Sture Cullhed, all well known, reputable experts, who have devoted their scientific studies to the various fields of sexual life. The film deals with all kinds of problems connected with the sexual relationship of people. Whilst every question is discussed by the panel., the film illustrates; the difference between male and female sexual organs and their functions, positions, and authentic coition whereby a split screen system is used enabling us to see the various reactions in different parts of the body. In connection with this as well as in other parts of the film, diagrams and animations are used to simplify the understanding of the complicated reactions which occur when a person is under sexual stimulus…
This is a real curiosity from the vaults, a late 60s Swedish sex education film which became an enormous box office hit across Europe and even, when it was finally released uncut with an X certificate, in the UK in 1973 (it was initially refused a certificate); this is historically interesting, as The Language of Love (as it was titled in English speaking markets) features some sections of actual hardcore footage, with close ups of fingers masturbating vaginas and a penis penetrating one. The film is apparently meant as a serious attempt to allay people’s fears and misconceptions about sex & improve the sex lives of heterosexual couples, but undoubtedly the enormous box office success of the film was due to the prurient interest of the public.

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Happy End (2011)

January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Happy End
Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Björn Runge

Cast:
Peter Andersson … Mårten
Anna Azcarate
Malin Buska
Stefan Cronwall … Trafikskolelärare
David Dencik … Richard
Fredric Gildea … Zidan
Mariah Kanninen
Hanna Malmberg … Nina
Ann Petrén … Jonna
Gustaf Skarsgård … Peter
Johan Widerberg … Asger

Plot/Synopsis:
HAPPY END is a fairytale for adults, about five people who currently stands at the crossroad that forever will change the paths of their lives.Jonna, Peter, Katrine, Asger and Mårten are all people with an important liaison to one another, but who are avoiding to be truthful. They are all living in a world of shadows, lined by lies and falsities and are only waiting for the truth to appear so that they may be able to continue their lives in another direction.

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About Sara (2005)

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Om Sara
Year: 2005
Runtime: 1 hour,44 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English (.hardsubbed)
Genre: Drama

Director: Othman Karim

Cast:
Linda Zilliacus … Sara
Alexander Skarsgård … Kalle Öberg
Hugo Emretsson … Stefan
Alexander Karim … Pelle
Siw Erixon … Saras mamma
Eva Rydberg … Kalles mamma
Afonso Alves … Kalle’s Team Mate – #8
Daniel Andersson … Kalle’s Team Mate – #30
Anna-Lena Back … Hemtjänst tjej
André Bakken … Begravningsentreprenör
Lena Birkemose … Hemtjänst tjej
Caroline Davidson … Tonys tjej
Eva Edenby … Mäklare #1’2
Joseph Elanga … Kalle’s Team Mate – #7
Sten Erici … Begravningspräst

Plot/Synopsis:
Sara is in her early 20s and lives in Malmo, in the south of Sweden. Her father is dead, and Sara and her mother have been forced to sell the house where they’ve always lived, with daughter reluctantly agreeing to put her confused mom in a hospital. Sara’s boyfriend, Kalle, is a celebrated soccer player and likes the high life fame brings. He is not pleased when Sara starts to work and enrolls in a course in school; they decide to marry, but it doesn’t last long. Work also destroys Sara’s next relationship, with a colleague, Stefan, when she gets a senior position he was trying to land. A few years on, Sara can afford to buy the old house where she and her mother used to live and she hires a couple of carpenters to renovate the rundown building. Wanting to become a mother, but not necessarily have a man in her life, she invites different guys to her bed in order to become pregnant. At the same time, she and one of the carpenters, start eyeing one another.

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She Monkeys (2011)

January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Apflickorna
Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hour,20 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: None
Genre: Drama | Sport

Director: Lisa Aschan

Cast:
Mathilda Paradeiser … Emma
Linda Molin … Cassandra
Isabella Lindquist … Sara
Sergej Merkusjev … Ivan
Adam Lundgren … Jens
Sigmund Hovind … Tobias
Kevin Caicedo Vega … Sebastian
Nasrin Pakkho … Simfröken
Maria Hedborg … Voltigetränaren
Inger Lindberg … Linföraren
Elin Söderquist … Badvakten
Malin Müller … Expediten
Rebecka Ahlström … Alice
Emma Liljeflod … Malin
Johanna Bergstedt … Ida

Plot/Synopsis:
Writer/director Lisa Aschan teams with scribe Josefine Adolfsson to explore the ruthless rivalry amongst female teens with this drama about a two adolescent equestrians who enter into a tense psychological power struggle. Emma has just landed a coveted spot on a girls’ equestrian athletics team when star rider Cassandra approaches her as a mentor. But while disciplined Emma admires her older peer’s obvious gift for the sport, Cassandra’s interest in Emma hints at something far more insidious. Later, as Emma and Cassandra’s blossoming friendship gives way to an intense rivalry, Emma’s preadolescent sister Sarah finds her innocence slowly shattered when she is forced to grow up before her time. ~ Jason Buchanan, Allrovi

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More About the Language of Love (1970)

January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Mera ur karlekens sprak
Year: 1970
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
Country: Sweden | Denmark
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English (embedded)
Genre: Documentary

Director: Torgny Wickman

Cast:
Inge Hegeler
Sten Hegeler
Maj-Brith Bergström-Walan
Ove Alström
Anna Berggren
Bengt Berggren
Göran Bergstrand
Bertil Hansson
Tommy Hendlund
Mirjam Israel
Mogens Jacobsen
Bruno Kapplan
Bengt Lindkvist
Lars Ljungberg
Lasse Lundberg

Plot/Synopsis:
While LANGUAGE OF LOVE illustrated general sex behaviour, MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE shows minority group attitudes towards sex. As in the first film, there is an expert panel of scientist, discussing and explaining the different parts of the film. The famous Danish sexologist couple Inge and Sten Hegeler are throughout the leading characters, while the others experts change in every sector. The headings are as follows: male and female homosexuality, aesthetics and sex, handicapped and sex, drugs and sex, pornography and sex, children and sex, and sex with old people. In the new film affliction and warmth are emphasised, particularly in the chapter showing coition between persons of the same sex. Besides when a blind girl and boy examine with their hands how a naked man and woman respectively are made, a new educational method initiated by the internationally known, Swedish sex pedagogue Maj-Brith Bergstroem-Walan…

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Beyond The Border (2011)

January 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Gränsen
Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish | German (some dialogue) | Norwegian (some dialogue)
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Action | Drama | War

Director: Richard Holm

Cast:
André Sjöberg … Aron Stenström
Antti Reini … Wille Järvinen
Bjørn Sundquist … Egil
Johan Hedenberg … Major Adolfsson
Marie Robertson … Karin Lindström
Martin Wallström … Sven Stenström
Rasmus Troedsson … Kapten Keller
Henrik Norlén … Wicksell
Jonas Karlström … Bergström
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mathias Alstadsäter … Soldat
Christer Broström … Soldat
Anton Damperud … Soldat
Robert Follin … Uno Larsson
Jens Hultén … Hagman
Donald Högberg … Överste Dunér
Fredrik Nilsson … Tysk radiooperatör
Anders Nordahl … Axel Halvars

Plot/Synopsis:

December 1942. Two young soldiers leave there post’s at check-point 83 i North Värmland, Sweden and make there way through the ice cold winter-night towards Nazi-occupied Norways border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody’s talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and the day after Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines, on a secret rescue mission. And deep in the Norwegian forest Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they’re to come out alive.

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Face to Face (1976)

December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Ansikte mot ansikte
Year: 1976
Runtime: 1 hour,54 minutes
Country: Sweden | Italy
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Fantasy

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Cast:
Liv Ullmann … Dr. Jenny Isaksson
Erland Josephson … Dr. Tomas Jacobi
Aino Taube … The Grandmother
Gunnar Björnstrand … The Grandfather
Kristina Adolphson … Nurse Veronica
Marianne Aminoff … Jenny’s mother
Gösta Ekman … Mikael Strömberg
Helene Friberg … Anna
Ulf Johansson … Helmuth Wankel
Sven Lindberg … Jenny’s husband
Jan-Eric Lindquist
Birger Malmsten … Rapist
Sif Ruud … Elisabeth Wankel
Göran Stangertz … Rapist
Lena Olin … Shop assistant

Plot/Synopsis:
Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an affair with married doctor Tomas Jacobi (Erland Josephson). This only serves to spark an attack of hysteria for Jenny. Again visited by hallucinations of the old woman, she attempts suicide. While hovering between life and death, she imagines she sees all the people who’ve been influential in her life, and rails against them for causing her neuroses. Only while recovering does she learn who the spectral old woman is and why she is undergoing so harrowing an emotional experience.
Face to face is another example of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s masterful direction in order to penetrate into his actors’ psyche. Bergman’s sole intention in his movies is to convey the emotions, the interaction between different personalities and how they swift in the film. He uses long uninterrupted takes in such effect that many times throughout the film someone could get carried away and find itself present in the room with the protagonists. It’s like Sven Nykvist forgets the camera somewhere recording, but the action continues… Bergman’s usual partners are present obviously in Face to Face. Aformentioned cinematographer Sven Nykvist (who by the way has won two Oscars for Bergman’s “Fanny & Alexander” and “Cries and Whispers” and was nominated for “face to face”, does again superb job. But in my opinion the film is worth viewing mostly for Liv Ullmann’s extraordinary performance, mominated for an Oscar as well. There is nothing that I could add, Bergman fans will find the master here in peak form.

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Show Me Love (1998)

December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Fucking Åmål
AKA: –
Year: 1998
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Country: Sweden | Denmark
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English (.srt MKV embed)
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Cast:

Alexandra Dahlström … Elin Olsson
Rebecka Liljeberg … Agnes Ahlberg (as Rebecca Liljeberg)
Erica Carlson … Jessica Olsson
Mathias Rust … Johan Hulth
Stefan Hörberg … Markus
Josefine Nyberg … Viktoria (as Josefin Nyberg)
Ralph Carlsson … Agnes’ Father Olof
Maria Hedborg … Agnes’ Mother Karin
Axel Widegren … Agnes’ Little Brother Oskar
Jill Ung … Elin’s Mother Birgitta

 

Plot/Synopsis:

Fucking Åmål is a coming-of-age comedy set in a sleepy little Swedish town called Åmål – the most boring place on earth according to one of its residents, the adolescent girl Elin. Meanwhile, one of her classmates, Agnes, is quietly in love with Elin, but no one knows about it except her computer. The title comes from Elin’s frequent comment about her new home town. The two share a kiss as the result of some cruel manipulation from Elin, but Elin soon returns to apologize, and the two spend a lengthy evening on the town together – an evening that culminates with a makeout session. Then, to cope with her burgeoning feelings for Agnes, Elin turns to a local boy, Johan, and dispenses with her virginity. In his first feature film, Lukas Moodysson shows the pains of growing up, particularly for a lesbian. Fucking Åmål was screened as part of the “Panorama” section of the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999 and received the Teddy Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Film. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Allrovi

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Sound of Noise (2010)

December 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Sound of Noise
AKA:
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Country: Sweden | France
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English | Finnish | Serbian (.srt) & Polish (.txt)
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Music | Romance | Thriller

Director:
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

Cast:

Bengt Nilsson … Amadeus Warnebring
Sanna Persson … Sanna
Magnus Börjeson … Magnus
Marcus Boij … Marcus
Fredrik Myhr … Myran
Anders Vestergard… Anders
Johannes Björk … Johannes
Sven Ahlström … Oscar Warnebring
Ralph Carlsson … Hagman

Plot/Synopsis:

The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to track down a group of six guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city. The drumming set pieces correspond to an avant-garde score with four hilariously titled movements. Where the short involved the six drummers imaginatively using standard apartment furnishings as their instruments, the feature unleashes them on an unspecified city’s civic and cultural institutions. Including an amusing backstory for each of the soberly dressed drummers as well as their nemesis, music-hating investigator Warnebring, the film creates a treat for the eyes and ears from the dull, repetitive sounds of everyday life.

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Syskonsalt (2000)

November 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Syskonsalt
Year: 2000
Runtime: 58 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: None
Genre: Drama

Director: Linus Tunström

Cast:
Lina Englund … Vanja
Chatarina Larsson … Eva
Daniel Larsson … Linus
Embla Hjulström … Vanja as Child
Emil Sabel … Linus as Child

Plot/Synopsis:
The siblings Linus, 19-years-old, who are taking driving licence and Vanja, 17-years-old, who’s still in school. Their mom Eva works night shift at a hotel. We get to follow them during one month. Linus and Vanja begin to realize that they are living in a universe of their own. And there is neither room for the mom or boy- and girlfriends. At first it is only the longing love in unspoken thoughts. But when thought gets into words they realize that they are each others perfect half. They are drawn closer to each other and finally can’t resist the taboo temptation in each others bodies. At first they deny, lie and try to resist. It’s about shame and guilt and forbidden feelings which leads to a point where everything is at stake.

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