Your daughter catches you cheating — now what, 1947 Sweden edition.
Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forced to leave family and home.
Acting
Ester Roeck-Hansen's trapped-animal eyes say everything scripts won't.
Direction
Järrel frames domestic spaces like prison cells — gorgeous and suffocating.
Director
Stig Järrel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Sweden's 'folkhemmet' welfare state construction, the film quietly interrogates the era's pressure toward idealized nuclear families.
Director Stig Järrel, better known as a comedian, cast himself as the cuckolded husband — reportedly wanted audiences to question their sympathy for the 'wronged' man.
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