1966 | Sweden | Fiction

Här har du ditt liv (Here Is Your Life)

  • Swedish English 168 mins
  • Director | Jan Troell
  • Writer | Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
  • Producer | Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell, Eyvind Johnson

STATUS: Released

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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.

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The Criterion Collection
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