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Här har du ditt liv (Here Is Your Life)

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Här har du ditt liv (Here Is Your Life)

  • 1966
  • Sweden
  • Fiction
  • Swedish
  • English
  • 168 mins
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This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy’s development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people—all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film—presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut—is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema’s finest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.

Credits

Director
Jan Troell
Writer
Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
Producer
Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell, Eyvind Johnson

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