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Kejsaren (1979)

Kejsaren (1979)

Drama
Release Date: 1979, February 24
Directors: Jösta Hagelbäck
Countries: Sweden
Production: Treklövern, Svenska Filminstitutet
Cast: Tomas Norström, Emy Storm, Göte Fyhring, Peter Lindgren, Annmari Kastrup, Per Ohlin, Jan Kruse, Kent-Arne Dahlgren, Jan Nygren, Bo Lindström, Rune Ek, Jan Dolata

Overview:

Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.

Keywords:

insanity surrealism