Här har du ditt liv = here is your life /

Här har du ditt liv = here is your life /

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This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follow...

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Other Authors: Akselson, Ulla (Actor), Axberg, Eddie (Actor, interviewee (expression)), Björnstrand, Gunnar, 1909-1986 (Actor), Cowie, Peter (interviewee (expression)), Edwall, Allan, 1924-1997 (Actor), Forslund, Bengt, 1932- (Screenwriter, Production manager, interviewee (expression)), Nordgren, Erik (composer (expression)), Nylén, Knut (Costume designer), Oscarsson, Per, 1927-2010 (Actor), Palme, Ulf, 1920-1993 (Actor), Sjöbolm, Ulla (Actor), Stade, Signe (Actor), Sydow, Max von, 1929-2020 (Actor), Troell, Jan, 1931- (Screenwriter, director of photography,), Törnblom, Stig (Actor), Johnson, Eyvind, 1900-1976
Format: Unknown
Language:Swedish
English
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Edition:Director-approved two-DVD special edition
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) 766
Subjects:
Johnson, Eyvind, > 1900-1976 > Film adaptations
Rural youth > Sweden > Drama
Young men > Sweden > Drama
Coming-of-age films
Feature films
Feature films > Sweden
Fiction films
Foreign language films > Swedish
Swedish language films
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Summary:This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people--all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film--presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut--is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema's greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition
Item Description:Based on the novels by Eyvind Johnson
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966
Special features: New 2K digital restoration; new introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh; new conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie; new interviews with actor Eddie Axberg and producer and screenwriter Bengt Forslund; Uppenhall i Myrlandet = Interlude in Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell, starring Max von Sydow; new English subtitle translation. Plus: an essay on container insert "Great Expectations" by film scholar Mark Le Fanu
Widescreen (1.66:1)
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (168 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (16 unnumbered panels : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Format:DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural
Audience:[Not rated]
Production Credits:Production manager, Bengt Forslund ; editor, Jan Troell ; music, Erik Nordgren ; art director, Rolf Boman ; costume design, Knut Nylén
ISBN:1681430185
9781681430188

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