Here is your life (DVD) / Svensk Filmindustri ; Janus Films ; directed and cinematography by Jan Troell ; script by Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund ; executive producer Bengt Forslund.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
2 videodiscs (168 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (16 unnumbered panels : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Based on the novels by Eyvind Johnson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Widescreen (1.66:1) Special features: New 2K digital restoration; new introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh; new conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie; new interviews with actor Eddie Axberg and producer and screenwriter Bengt Forslund; Interlude in Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell, starring Max von Sydow; new English subtitle translation. Plus: an essay on container insert "Great Expectations" by film scholar Mark Le Fanu. Eddie Axberg, Ulla Sjöbolm, Gunnar Björnstrand, Per Oscarsson, Ulf Palme, Singe Stade, Allan Edwall, Max von Sydow, Ulla Akselson, Stig Törnblom.
Summary:
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-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 greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.
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