Walking in the Land of the Old
A documentary directed by Marianne Ahrne, based on the French writer Simone de Beauvoir's Essay of the Age. The film discusses whether older people are really treated as human beings or not
Casts & Crew
Simone de Beauvoir
Herself
Marcel Jouhandeau
Himself
Also Directed by Marianne Ahrne
"Plenty of Boys, Shortage of Men" - ?About boys, men, male roles, and men vis-a-vis the Jungian archetypes and various mythical male figures such as St. George, Orpheus, Achilles and Oidipus. And why some boys eventually matures to men while others evolve to adult boys. Illustrative images and interviews with commando soldiers, criminals, rock-musicians, troublemakers, and others.
Partially autobiographical film about little Sara who grows up in a home with a neurotic mother.
Three Swedish children of different origins learn to play Blinka little star on violin.
"Girls, Women and some other Dragon" - Depicts different women and their views on the relationship with their daughters and partners, and views on love, jealousy and more.
"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years.
An Argentine actor comes to Sweden. He has a pictured Sweden as a paradise. From his small rented room he is trying in vain to make contact with the Swedes.
Flickan vid stenbänken is a Swedish 1989 TV series in nine episodes directed by Marianne Ahrne starring Anna Edlund, Anna Björk and Lena T. Hansson. The series was based on Maria Gripe's books Skuggan över stenbänken, ...och de vita skuggorna i skogen and Skuggornas barn.
Sofia has lived in the small town Falköping during her childhood. Since she left her hometown she has become an famous international actress. Now she longs to return to the playgrounds of her childhood, and meet old friends
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
