A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director’s, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher’s idea.Read More »
A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.Read More »
Synopsis
In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.Read More »
Two impressionable teenage girls fall in with a beatnik crowd that is content to avoid work and have fun. The group lives for today while committing petty crimes and revels in being outside social convention until their adventures take a murderous turn.Read More »
A young medical student and his illustrator wife live a happy life but soon get their hands full with three children crammed into in their small city apartment, so they decide to put an ad out for a maid. They get a bit more than they were expecting in Kristin, who don’t suffer fools easily but has a heart of gold…Read More »
Ann Fromm (Gundel Lindblom), age 34 and a lecturer in Slavic Languages, is married to Andreas (Per Myrberg), a 40-year-old architect. They introduce themselves to the TV audience as rich, happy, and uncomplicated. They are well-educated, well-mannered, and polite. Anna has had an affair with a common friend, Ellis (Erland Josephson), for 8 years. Their relationship is as conventional as a marriage. When Anna reveals her unfaithfulness to Andreas, their upper middle-class façade rupture. This event occurs in the same week as Martin Luther King is murdered.Read More »
Novel writer John is kicked out from home by his girlfriend and moves in with his friend Max. After many entanglements Max’s girlfriend Eva begins to favor John over Max.Read More »
A drama set in 1970s Sweden and centered on a young woman’s experiences growing up in a home riddled with abuse and alcoholism.
One morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.Read More »
Fredrik has everything he could want in life, a girlfriend he loves, he owns a hot dog stand that goes really well, and in addition, he will soon be a father. But happiness does not last forever, Pia decides to leave Frederick and go back to his first true love. Frederick’s world falls apart as he more than any other longs for a child, so he decides to adopt one. Frederick persuade Russian Tatyana who works in his booth to SIMULATE a marriage in order to increase his chances for adoption. But when Frederick meets Milla, who works at the social welfare office, which must approve the adoption, he is in love and everything changes again in Frederick’s life.Read More »