Gio Petré

A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store’s mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life…Read More »

PLOT:
For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, “The Misses von Pahlen,” an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant women from different backgrounds wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences via individual flashbacks. Drawing on the classic Ingmar Bergman style of Swedish filmmaking and collaborating with many of his favorite actors as well as the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Zetterling had produced a powerful fusion of personal emotional drama and a commentary on the role of women in a society in moral decline.Read More »

Belgian Congo, 1950s.
Big game hunter Jean de Markisar (Galley) is hired by savage natives to fend off and preferrably kill a mountain gorilla which has mauled a woman. On his travels Markisar picks up gamely Swedish reporter Lena Berg (Petré) who looks upon the whole endeavour as a bit of a holiday. The African jungle will make her think otherwise.Read More »