The Swedish working-class woman who wrote her way into history—and out of three marriages.
Direction
Wechselmann's decades-long dedication to radical women's stories.
Writing
Martinson's own words—raw, hungry, magnificently unpolished.
Director
Maj Wechselmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martinson's 1933 novel 'Women and Appletrees' was so scandalous that libraries refused to stock it. It's now considered a Swedish feminist classic.
Her son's suicide and her subsequent institutionalization were weaponized by literary critics for decades to dismiss her 'hysterical' writing—conveniently ignoring her male contemporaries' similar struggles.
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