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Criterion collection volume 178
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Swedish
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Tells the story of Ingemar, a twelve-year-old from a working-class family sent to live with his uncle in a country village when his mother falls ill. There, the boy finds both refuge from his misfortunes and unexpected adventure with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics.
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Swedish
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In the summer of 1981, a 9-year-old girl is left behind in her aunt's care while the rest of her family goes to Africa as aid workers. The aunt is soon courted by a man and leaves the girl with the promise to return in a few days. The abandoned girl keeps this a secret from everyone and uses her freedom to discover the world around her as the summer passes by. With sharpening senses she gradually discovers the often absurd and careless world of adults....
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Swedish
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1930s Sweden. 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja and her sister are torn from their indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school. There Elle dreams of education, of a future, only to be faced with racial examinations that class her people as inferior. What follows is a girl's attempt to escape one world of prejudice and another of old traditions, only to realize later the true cost of freedom.
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Language
Swedish
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Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Series
Criterion collection volume 261, 262, 263, 264
Language
Swedish
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Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical film that witnesses the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden, through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander.
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Swedish
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Patrik and Erica are expecting their first child when the body of a woman is found in a rock cleft -- with two more skeletons hidden underneath. A lobster net brings up the body of a child off the coast. At first she appears to be a victim of an accidental drowning, but the investigation soon points to murder. Patrik and Erica are making wedding plans when a deadly car crash occurs. The case is almost written off as a tragic accident, but a series...
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