Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone - until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of ...
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| Alicia Vikander | ... | Katarina | |
| Samuel Fröler | ... | Adam | |
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Josephine Bauer | ... | Birgitta, mamman |
| Martin Wallström | ... | Mattias | |
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Helén Söderqvist Henriksson | ... | Personalchefen (as Helén Söderqvist) |
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Kim Lantz | ... | Vaktmästaren |
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Frederik Nilsson | ... | Henrik |
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Elisabeth Göransson | ... | Agneta, socialsekreteraren |
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Ylva Gallon | ... | Sjuksköterskan |
| Anna Åström | ... | Cicci | |
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Magnus Lindberg | ... | Nille |
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Adama Gharbi | ... | Jasse & Hans Killgäng |
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Edwin Chalusi | ... | Jasse & Hans Killgäng |
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Caesar Kobb | ... | Jasse & Hans Killgäng |
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Felix Stegemann | ... | Jasse & Hans Killgäng |
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Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone - until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Gothenburg Concert Hall that sends her reeling and opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she has to follow proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity. Written by Anonymous
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22 October 2010 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Pure See more »Filming Locations:
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Katarina: [wearing headphones listening to Mozart] We don't have all the time in the world. You shouldn't waste life, so the only thing that happens is that your pussy gets slack. The first time I heard Mozart was on YouTube. That's nearly a year ago. I was searching for some stupid clip, and suddenly I was captivated - by the music. Since then, they can't touch me. They can take their cocks and their ugly lives and say what they want. I don't care. I'm not there anymore. In some bloody way ...
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Kompositör/ Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Dirigent: Per-Otto Johansson
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When film director Lisa Langseth was looking for an unestablished actress to play the lead in her new film, she discovered Alicia Vikander. See more »Goofs
Near the end of the movie, Katarina goes to the library and asks for "Rachmaninoff's piano concerto, with Richter." She finds a seat and plays the CD. The audio is not Rachmaninoff though, but Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major (K. 622). See more »Quotes
[first lines]Katarina: [wearing headphones listening to Mozart] We don't have all the time in the world. You shouldn't waste life, so the only thing that happens is that your pussy gets slack. The first time I heard Mozart was on YouTube. That's nearly a year ago. I was searching for some stupid clip, and suddenly I was captivated - by the music. Since then, they can't touch me. They can take their cocks and their ugly lives and say what they want. I don't care. I'm not there anymore. In some bloody way ...
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Symphoni nr 25 Sats 1 (Symfoni, nr 7, op. 92, A-dur)
Kompositör/ Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Dirigent: Per-Otto Johansson
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Things like music, poetry, philosophy etc are essential details of this film, but otherwise have nothing to do with its theme.
That theme is the corruption of innocence. Which puts it in company with other films like "The Go Between", "Rosetta", "Mouchette" or "Lord of the Flies", but "Pure" is realistic rather than romantic. The director, Lisa Langseth, probably has much in common with Anthony Trollope, who was once described as "compared to Trollope, even Balzac is a romantic".
The entire film depends on the performance of Alicia Vikander as Katarina, and that performance is flawless, first as a young girl of passion, through her disillusionment, and, at the very last scene, to her "graduation".
And special mention should be made of Per-Eric Winberg's music soundtrack, both his own compositions and those he selected from other composers are first class.