The New Man

Name: Den nya människan
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-02-23
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Lo Kauppi, Ellen Jelinek, Ann-Sofie Nurmi

Original title: Den nya människan

2007
1h 44m

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The film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affec... Read allThe film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affecting 63,000 people between 1934 and 1976.The film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affecting 63,000 people between 1934 and 1976.

Director
- Klaus Härö
Writers
- Jimmy Karlsson
- Kjell Sundstedt
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Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations

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Director
- Klaus Härö
Writers
- Jimmy Karlsson(screenplay collaboration)
- Kjell Sundstedt
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10/10

Took Swedish movies to a new height.

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.

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