Summer Nights on Planet Earth
A long flashback of an author and his relationship to an actress. Existential questions with no answers.
Gunnel Lindblom
Agneta Pleijel
Casts & Crew
Harriet Andersson
Sif Ruud
Mona Malm
Per Mattsson
Leif Ahrle
Ulf Johanson
Inga-Lill Andersson
Margaretha Byström
Also Directed by Gunnel Lindblom
Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.
A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.
"True Women" - About the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order, includes the same problem as "A Doll's House". But Berta, unlike Nora, remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those who seek to oppress her.
Sally, a 28-year-old social worker who has just broken up from a ten-year marriage. She seeks freedom, but has trouble living alone. She soon finds a new man, lawyer Jonas, but Sally knows that the past is chasing her and do things more difficult for her freedom quest.
An elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, collects seaweed, eats a simple meal and drinks a snaps. "Skål" is the only word he utters.