Kejsaren
Kejsaren
Release: 1979-02-24
·Runtime: 97m
·★ 9.0
Drama
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
Production Countries
Sweden
Production Companies
Treklövern
Svenska Filminstitutet
Cast
Richard Hobert
as Farmhand
Annmari Kastrup
as Prologue (voice)
Gunnar Ekström
as Anton
Jan Nygren
as Caretaker at St. Lars
Gisela von Matuska
as Woman at the Polish Church
Emy Storm
as Gerda
Tomas Norström
as Farmhand
Jan Jönsson
as Madman at St. Lars
Anders Åberg
as Eije Ström
Peter Lindgren
as The Captain
Göte Fyhring
as Rectifier
