Med folket för fosterlandet (1938)

8.0/10 106 min Crime Drama History War

Overview

This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.

Cast

Sigurd Wallén

Linnéa Hillberg

Åke Johansson

Hasse Ekman

Marianne Löfgren

Gösta Cederlund

Kotti Chave

Sven-Eric Gamble

Maritta Marke

Björn Berglund

Eric Abrahamsson

Anders Henrikson

Gun-Mari Kjellström

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