Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
Acting
Stig Olin's ferocious, magnetic delinquent performance.
Direction
Mattsson's unflinching eye for institutional rot.
Director
Arne Mattsson
Stig Olin
Krister Sundbom
Stig Järrel
Björn "Mankan" Mander
Marianne Löfgren
Olga Sundbom
Arnold Sjöstrand
Bring
Elsie Albiin
Rosa Langenfeldt
Erik 'Bullen' Berglund
Hacksén
Ingrid Backlin
Vera
Ingemar Pallin
Bengt Ekner
Harriett Philipson
Birgitta Mander
Gunnar Björnstrand
Dr. Bertil Langenfeldt
Börje Mellvig
Furustam
Bengt Logardt
Åke Holm
Tord Stål
Harry Helander
Carl Hagman
School Janitor
Julia Cæsar
Hostess
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Sweden's postwar reckoning with youth delinquency, reflecting real anxieties about the 'lost generation.'
Stig Olin later became Ingmar Bergman's go-to actor; this early role shows the volcanic talent Bergman would exploit.
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