A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malm, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The machinery starts moving, passengers board the train. Before the boy enters the car, his mother gives him his bag, hoping he will manage this trip on his own. The boy sits down and starts looking at the other passengers. He picks up his...
Early morning. The first sunbeams reach a city that is still asleep. A schoolboy hikes up a roller blind. In the harbor, behind a pile of goods, a homeless man wakes up. When the schoolboy is about to leave for school, his turtle comes crawling. He picks it up, and brings it along, when he walks away. The homeless man looks at the dockworkers going to work, listens to an organi...
The Last Sentence, the latest film from Jan Troell is a biographical drama about a leading newspaperman in Sweden during the Nazi era. The film follows Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief for the liberal Gteborgs Handels- och Sjfartstidning, one of the few Swedish newspapers that held a staunch anti-Nazi view. His public opposition to the Nazi regime made him a controversial...