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World of Glory

Original title: Härlig är jorden
  • 1991
  • 14m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
2.4K
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Klas-Gösta Olsson in World of Glory (1991)
ShortComedyDrama

After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a ... Read allAfter witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?

  • Director
    • Roy Andersson
  • Writer
    • Roy Andersson
  • Stars
    • Klas-Gösta Olsson
    • Lennart Björklund
    • Christer Christensen
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    2.4K
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    • Director
      • Roy Andersson
    • Writer
      • Roy Andersson
    • Stars
      • Klas-Gösta Olsson
      • Lennart Björklund
      • Christer Christensen
    • 8User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins

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    • Real-estate agent
    Lennart Björklund
    Christer Christensen
    Bernard Eiger
    Rolf Engström
    Gun Fors
    Udo Kühnapas
    Hans Söderblom
    Anne Tubin
    • Director
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    • Trivia
      The short film's original Swedish title is "Härlig är Jorden", which literally means "Lovely is the Earth", and it is also the Swedish title of the Christian hymn "Fairest Lord Jesus".
    • Quotes

      Real-estate agent: Well, I am an estate agent. They have to exist, too.

    • Connections
      Followed by Vi ses i Krakow (1992)

    User reviews8

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    Infuriatingly difficult to grab hold of but hard to get out of your mind
    Without fuss, without emotions, a thin pale man shows us his life, introduces us to his sick mother, his dead father, his wife, his son and his brother. He shows us his home and we see him calmly go about his life until we see the impact that the secrets he holds start to wear on him.

    I would love to write reams about this film and claim that it had moved and touched me, or that I was able to understand so much about what the film was trying to say but, if I did that, I would be lying. I found this film very hard to get into and was left thinking about it after it had finished. I continued to think about it and the bleak impression it had of a ordinary life that was scarred by one terrible action – in this case, I think, the fact that the man had allowed genocide to occur in front of him without saying a word, and only going back to his ordinary rather dreary life afterwards. What exactly he had seen/been involved in is hard to read into in much detail and it caused me the problem, but I accepted that this was his secret, that it was awful and that he tried to live with it but, in the end, could not.

    The film is delivered in a series of static shots that are as grey and washed out as anything I have ever seen – you will not leave this film smiling that's for sure. The sheer drudgery of day to day life is laid out here and it is an unpleasant thing to see. The point of the whole short takes some thought and I'm sure that it will be different for each viewer that sees it but I took it as a sort of judgment on those (countries and people) who try to just live with horrid things in their lives as if nothing had happened – they will not move on and it will eat at them as it does here.

    Like I said, I wish I had the answers and I wish I could pontificate at length about the film but I find it hard to do. But one thing is sure – the film is in my head now and it is hard to shake the images left there and the sense of doom that came with the man's ordinary life and his inability to ever get passed the deeds that he had either participated in or allowed to occur without so much as a tear shed.
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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1991 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • Sweden
    • Also known as
      • Світ прекрасний
    • Production companies
      • Göteborg Film Festival
      • SVT Drama
      • Studio 24
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      14 minutes
    • Color
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