Directed by:
Bo WiderbergScreenplay:
Bo WiderbergCinematography:
Jan LindeströmCast:
Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Ingvar Hirdwall, Emy Storm, Christina Frambäck, Agneta Prytz, Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, Nina WiderbergVOD (1)
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A period piece that forgoes nostalgia in favor of a stark examination of working-class struggle, Bo Widerberg’s second feature unfolds in 1936 in the director’s hometown of Malmö. It’s there, in the poor district of Raven’s End, that young Anders (Widerberg’s regular collaborator Tommy Berggren) chases his dream of becoming a writer while growing increasingly disillusioned with the dead-end world that surrounds him: an alcoholic father, a toiling mother, and the ominous specter of Nazism. Delivering a bracing jolt of kitchen-sink realism to Swedish cinema, Widerberg paints an unsparing portrait of youthful idealism bumping up against economic despair. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Thommy Berggren
Sweden
Best movies:
Raven's End (1963)
The Ballad Of Joe Hill (1971)
Giliap (1975)
Keve Hjelm
Sweden
Best movies:
Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Raven's End (1963)
Ingvar Hirdwall
Sweden
Best movies:
Millennium (2010) (series)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Children's Island (1980)
Emy Storm
Sweden
Best movies:
Emil i Lönneberga (1971)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)
Christina Frambäck
Sweden
Best movies:
Raven's End (1963)
Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991)
Agneta Prytz
Sweden
Best movies:
The Ox (1991)
The Emigrants (1971)
The New Land (1972)
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Sweden
Best movies:
Raven's End (1963)
Nina Widerberg
Sweden
Best movies:
Raven's End (1963)
The Man on the Roof (1976)
Elvira Madigan (1967)