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Title: Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story (1975)
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| Gösta Ekman | ... | The Son | |
| Max von Sydow | ... | The Father | |
| Birgitta Andersson | ... | The Mother | |
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Anna Godenius | ... | Girl |
| Hans Alfredson | ... | Tramp | |
| Börje Ahlstedt | ... | Man in Comercial | |
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Ingvar Petrow | ... | (as Ingvar Petrov) |
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Jim Hughes | ... | American |
| Stig Ossian Ericson | ... | Worker | |
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Jan Wirén | ... | Worker |
| Meg Westergren | ... | Woman in Comercial | |
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Ola Thulin | ... | Doctor |
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Kerstin Lokrantz | ... | Bathing woman |
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Anders Jonason | ... | Bathing man |
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Bengt Ottekil | ... | Fisherman |
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The patriarch of a seemingly nameless family is a factory owner whose workers transform eggs into specialized tools for scratching certain unreachable human itches. The Father rules both his business and his family with an iron fist. So when The Son rebels against him, it comes as no surprise that The Father doesn't take it very well.
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17 March 1975 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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This film is overall so-so, it has its ups and downs, including one peek which is to be mentioned as one of the best scenes in Swedish motion picture history, where the cold-hearted father (Von Sydow) throws his son (Gösta Ekman) into a secluded lake, where he gets caught in the soil. We then get to follow the process of how he becomes a part of the lake and the nature. The fact that everything that happens to him, in theory could happen in real life, fortifies the experience enormously. The scene is performed with such elegance and such captivating manners, leaving the audience breathless.