Everlasting Moments
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Jan Troell
Casts & Crew
Maria Heiskanen
Mikael Persbrandt
Jesper Christensen
Emil Jensen
Callin Öhrvall
Nellie Almgren
Birte Heribertsson
Ghita Nørby
Amanda Ooms
Hans Henrik Clemensen
Maria Lundqvist
Annika Lundgren
Ann Petrén
Livia Millhagen
Zenna Fiscella
Claire Wikholm
Antti Reini
Johanna Troell
Rune Bergman
Hans Alfredson
Julia Ragnarsson
Jonathan Mårtensson
Boel Larsson
Maria Kulle
Åsa Söderling
Sanna Persson
Michael Segerström
Rolf Jarl
Ellinor Taflin
Kenneth Milldoff
Richard Ulfsäter
Pierre Lindstedt
Rolf Lydahl
Eddie Axberg
Christian Fex
Linus Nilsson
Also Directed by Jan Troell
A small local radio station in the city of Trelleborg, Sweden. Very important to its listeners. A friend in the air.
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
One of the four short films comprising the omnibus titled 4X4, each from a different Nordic country. This is the Swedish entry and is based on a story by Evyind Johnson.
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
Pianist Hans Pålsson is asked to write music for his friend Claes Eklundh's artwork. A documentary which shows the two men and their creating processes, and their interpretations of each others art.
About the difficulty of finding its way.
Movement, glance, rhythm and hints. Meetings on fragrant meadows and in enclosed training rooms. Joy, sweat, disciplined training and physical presence. A film about the dialogue between man and woman, but also between cultures, generations and social classes.
Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.