Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult (1967)

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with ... See full summary »

Director:

Vilgot Sjöman

Stars:

Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Lena Nyman	...	Lena Nyman
Vilgot Sjöman	...	Vilgot Sjöman
Börje Ahlstedt	...	Börje
Peter Lindgren	...	Rune Nyman
Chris Wahlström	...	Rune's Woman
Marie Göranzon	...	Marie
Magnus Nilsson	...	Magnus
Ulla Lyttkens	...	Ulla
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andreas Bellis	...	Self - Assistant Camera
Evgeniy Evtushenko	...	Self (as Jevtusjenko)
Marianne Johnson	...	Self - Script Girl
Martin Luther King	...	Self (as Martin Luther King Jr.)
Raymond Lundberg	...	Self - Recording Supervisor
Lena Malmsjö	...	Self - Production Coordinator
Christer Oestberg	...	Self - Sound Assistant (as Christer Ostberg)

Storyline

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

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Plot Keywords:

politics | equality | sex | hunger strike | swedish government | 

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Taglines:

Banned in Nearly Every Country

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

16+

Did You Know?

Trivia

Olof Palme, who is interviewed in the film as a young cabinet minister, later became Prime Minister and was a major figure in Swedish and international politics in the 1970s and 1980s. He was often associated with left-wing causes including opposition to US involvement in Vietnam. Palme was shot to death on a Stockholm street in 1986, in a crime that has never been fully solved.

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Quotes

Magnus, Lena's school friend: Are there any interesting social cases here? People in sleazy flats? People with unpaid dental bills? Drug cases will do, too. I work for "Expressen" the paper with a sting. My paper is planning a conservative victory in the '68 elections. We're doing a series on the ten most sordid social welfare cases.

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Crazy Credits

Closing credits list the remaining credited cast names; there are no other credits.

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Alternate Versions

A home video version has around twenty minutes of politics edited compared to what was seen in the original 35mm.

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Connections

Featured in Minns Ni? (1993)

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Soundtracks

L'Internationale
(uncredited)
Music by Pierre De Geyter

User Reviews

Historical curiosity

This film, once sensational for its forward-thinking politics and depictions of free love and sexual liberation, has been reduced by time to a mere curiosity. It seems absurd now that this mostly boring little film had been banned and seized by governments in many countries. Given how socialistic Sweden eventually became, the 'radicalism' of its politics, once controversial, appear naive and almost mainstream four decades later. And its sex scenes, at one time the subject of sensational obscenity trials, look pretty tame in a modern context. Nevertheless, the film and accompanying documentaries detailing its many controversies and influences remains marginally watchable as an early reliquary of 60's youth rebellion. One part of the film that still holds up: its self-consciousness with respect to the 'fourth wall'. Every once in a while, the filmmakers film themselves making the film. The satiric playfulness of this still elicits a chuckle.

Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

9 October 1967 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Box Office

Gross USA:

$20,238,100

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$27,700,000

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sandrews

Technical Specs

Runtime:

121 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1