Here's Your Life (1966)
"Här har du ditt liv" (original title)

Director:

Jan Troell

Writers:

Bengt Forslund, Eyvind Johnson (novel),

Stars:

Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost, Ulla Akselson

5 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Eddie Axberg	...	Olof Persson
Gudrun Brost	...	Olof's Stepmother
Ulla Akselson	...	Olof's Mother
Bo Wahlström	...	Older brother
Rick Axberg	...	Second brother
Holger Löwenadler	...	Kristiansson
Göran Lindberg	...	Olsson
Tage Sjögren	...	Lund
Tage Jonsson	...	Linus
Allan Edwall	...	August
Anne-Marja Blind	...	Woman in Tale (as Anna Maria Blind)
Birger Lensander	...	Brickworks Intendant
Max von Sydow	...	Smålands-Pelle
Ulf Palme	...	Larsson
Jan-Eric Lindquist	...	Johansson

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

nudity | socialism | growing up | based on novel

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

20 December 1968 (USA)

Also Known As:

Here's Your Life

Filming Locations:

Boden, Norrbottens län, Sweden

Company Credits

Production Co:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

169 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in The Voice of Bergman (1997)

User Reviews

Competent movie-making, but overly episodic - with at least 1 HOUR of redundant footage...

Long, lumbering tale of teenage Olof and his coming-of-age journey through Sweden in the 1910s. This award-winning epic tells both a rite-of-passage story, and a fairly interesting depiction of rural Sweden and the country's early proletarian and workers' movement.

Great production values and cinematography underline competent movie-making for sure... but we never get to know the protagonist enough to really care in the end, because of its overly episodic narrative. What's more, it contains at least one HOUR of footage and scenes that neither move, entertain or push the story forward... Poetic? No, in my book, that's being guilty of painfully redundant screen time! It's on many a list of best-ever Swedish movies. To me, it's not bad (as stated), but I probably wouldn't even rank it on my Swedish top-50...

5 out of 10 from Ozjeppe