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Release Date:
February 24, 1979
Original Title:
Kejsaren
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Svenska Filminstitutet
Treklövern
Production Countries:
Sweden
Ratings / Certifications:
SE: 15
Runtime: 97
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.
Costume Design:
Tina Johansson
Director:
Jösta Hagelbäck
Director of Photography:
Harald Gunnar Paalgard
Sten Holmberg
Editor:
Peter Emanuel Falck
Executive Producer:
Anna-Lena Wibom
Novel:
Birgitta Trotzig
Original Music Composer:
Ragnar Grippe
Production Design:
Stig Boquist
Still Photographer:
Carl-Gustav Nykvist
Writer:
Jösta Hagelbäck
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