A Serious Game
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
Casts & Crew
Sverrir Gudnason
Karin Franz Körlof
Liv Mjönes
Michael Nyqvist
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Sven Nordin
Göran Ragnerstam
Richard Forsgren
Petronella Barker
Ia Langhammer
Alba August
Eva Millberg
Sofia Rönnegård
Staffan Göthe
Sophie Tolstoy
Thomas Segerström
Johan van Huisstede
Pernilla Östervall
Ann Hellenius
Liva Östervall
Viva Ostervall
Pelle Sandberg
Peter Larsdotter
Sven Wagelin
Malin Persson
Alva Hellenius
Dennis Sjöberg
Klas Anderlin
Also Directed by Pernilla August
The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today that fear has other faces.
Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and she plays opposite her husband, actor Ola Rapace.Award winning actress Pernilla August makes her directorial debut with her take on the bestselling novel Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski.In other main roles we see rising star Tehilla Blad and the Finnish acclaimed actors, Ville Virtanen and Outi Mäenpää.A morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.