42 minutes that'll make you side-eye everyone on the bus tomorrow.
About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.
Acting
Scharffenberg's face does what dialogue cannot.
Direction
Berglund turns 42 minutes into eternity.
Director
Per Berglund
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1975 Sweden was wrestling with deinstitutionalization; this aired on television, forcing families to confront what they preferred hidden.
Scharffenberg, primarily a stage actress, never made another film—making this her sole, searing cinematic legacy.
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