Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Eddie Axberg | ... | Olof Persson | |
Gudrun Brost | ... | Olof's Stepmother | |
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Ulla Akselson | ... | Olof's Mother |
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Bo Wahlström | ... | Older brother |
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Rick Axberg | ... | Second brother |
Holger Löwenadler | ... | Kristiansson | |
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Göran Lindberg | ... | Olsson |
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Tage Sjögren | ... | Lund |
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Tage Jonsson | ... | Linus |
Allan Edwall | ... | August | |
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Anna Maria Blind | ... | Woman in Tale |
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Birger Lensander | ... | Brickworks Intendant |
Max von Sydow | ... | Smålands-Pelle | |
Ulf Palme | ... | Larsson | |
Jan-Erik Lindqvist | ... | Johansson |
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Eyvind Johnson, Here's Your Life tells the story of a working-class boy coming of age in rural Sweden during the first World War. Director Jan Troell's striking visual style is on display, as are cameos from some of Swedish cinema's biggest stars. Written by Anonymous
A beautiful bildungsroman-- a young man goes wandering through the world, making his way as he goes and meeting vivid people. The material isn't romantic-- poverty is general, and the young man discovers his own cruelty as well as the strengths that sustain him. This film had a huge cast, and Troell's use of widescreen fills the image with detail of 19th century provincial life that authenticates the performances-- I have remembered the dirty leer of its blacksmith for thirty years. I remember watching it, wishing there were an hour more of it.