Here is your life = Här har du ditt liv / Svensk Filmindustri ; Janus Films ; directed and cinematography by Jan Troell ; script by Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund ; executive producer Bengt Forslund.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Eddie Axberg, Ulla Sjöbolm, Gunnar Björnstrand, Per Oscarsson, Ulf Palme, Signe Stade, Allan Edwall, Max von Sydow, Ulla Akselson, Stig Törnblom. Title from container. Based on a series of stories by Eyvind Johnson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: New introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh; new conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie; new interviews with actor Eddie Axeberg and Bengt Forslund; interlude in the Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell; essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu.
Summary:
Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, it 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.
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