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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Lo Kauppi | ... | Jenny |
Ellen Jelinek | ... | Astrid (as Ellen Mattsson) | |
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Ann-Sofie Nurmi | ... | Alba |
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Nadja Mirmiran | ... | Erika |
Tobias Aspelin | ... | Dr. Berg | |
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Linda Kulle | ... | Ingrid |
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Monica Edwardson | ... | Birgitta (as Monica Edvardsson) |
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Anna Littorin | ... | Lisa |
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Happy Jankell | ... | Anna |
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Bengt C.W. Carlsson | ... | Barnavårdsmannen |
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Anders Beckman | ... | Tjänstemannen |
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Ola Wahlström | ... | Biografvaktmästaren |
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Claes Hartelius | ... | Anna's foster father |
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Karin Knutsson | ... | Anna's foster mother |
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Sven-Åke Gustavsson | ... | Artur (as Sven Åke Gustavsson) |
Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak. Gertrud is a 17 year old girl from a very poor family. Against her will, she is committed to a work home for young women. Gertrud learns that the only way out is by agreeing to a voluntary sterilization. Gertrud falls in love with the janitor, Axel and soon finds herself pregnant. She dreams about a normal family life with Axel and the child, and doesnt realize that when performing the operation the doctor will most certainly take the child away. She changes her mind about the operation but she no longer has a choice. Now there is only one way out: She pretends to be mentally deranged and is transferred to a mental hospital. A child grows in her womb. Gertrud has fooled the system, but the price she pays is her own future.
Often when I watch Swedish movies I think the acting is too much. When I saw this movie I didn't think of it as a Swedish movie anymore. The acting was wonderful!
The writers have done a really good job gathering all the information and all the letters that the film writers grandmother (of something similar) sent to her family during her time at the institution (this is on the DVD as extras).
The storyline is a awful story that is based on true events, events that we in the Swedish school system puts a blind fold on so that we only shall see how neutral we are all the time.
I think this is a perfect history lesson that every teenager really should see.