Göte Fyhring
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.
For a salary equivalent to ten years' salary recruited seven construction workers to perform work on an unknown unknown for an unknown purpose. They may find out two things, first, that it will be a Swedish midsummer which seems strange since it is December and soon Christmas in Sweden as well as former workers there have had problems with "visions" and that they had better confine themselves and concentrate on reality. After a few hours drive blindfolded, they arrived at their new workplace where it is supposed that they should spend a year. And it is high summer, mosquitoes, flowers and the whole ballet is waiting for them when they step off the car.
A Swedish road movie about two mismatched women. The road leads to strange meetings and bizarre events and episodes.
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
