A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malm, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The machinery starts moving, passengers board the train. Before the boy enters the car, his mother gives him his bag, hoping he will manage this trip on his own. The boy sits down and starts looking at the other passengers. He picks up his...
A poetic film about the various factors that affect aging.
Early morning. The first sunbeams reach a city that is still asleep. A schoolboy hikes up a roller blind. In the harbor, behind a pile of goods, a homeless man wakes up. When the schoolboy is about to leave for school, his turtle comes crawling. He picks it up, and brings it along, when he walks away. The homeless man looks at the dockworkers going to work, listens to an organi...
The Last Sentence, the latest film from Jan Troell is a biographical drama about a leading newspaperman in Sweden during the Nazi era. The film follows Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief for the liberal Gteborgs Handels- och Sjfartstidning, one of the few Swedish newspapers that held a staunch anti-Nazi view. His public opposition to the Nazi regime made him a controversial...
A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.
25 July 1961 S/S Malm makes its last trip to Copenhagen. The steamboat was built in 1914 for transporting passengers across the resund. 47 years later it has had its day.. After leaving the last load of passengers in Copenhagen, the steamboat returns empty to Malm. For the last time it passes the well-known views along the quays of Copenhagen, accompanied by the shrill cries...