What if a concussion was actually a spiritual awakening?
"The Bump" - A factory worker get a sharp bump on his head after having collided with a lamppost. This incident causes him to leave his square daily life for spontaneous escapades and whims.
Acting
von Brömssen's deadpan spiral into liberation
Direction
Wedel's refusal to explain the magic
Director
Karsten Wedel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wedel was part of a small wave of Swedish filmmakers exploring working-class surrealism in the early 90s, reacting against the dominant social realist tradition.
The lamppost collision was filmed in a single unplanned take when von Brömssen actually slipped on wet cobblestones; Wedel kept it.
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