Movielogr
Amorosa (1986)
Directed by Mai Zetterling
Overview
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls “her child”. The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls’ books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Length 117 minutes
Actors
Stina Ekblad | Erland Josephson | Philip Zandén | Lena T. Hansson | Peter Schildt | Catherine de Seynes | Olof Thunberg | Börje Ahlstedt | Inga Gill | Gösta Krantz | Anita Björk | Heinz Hopf | Anja Landgré | Mimi Pollak | Gunnel Broström | Lauritz Falk | Johan Rabaeus | Rico Rönnbäck | Margreth Weivers | Henrik Schildt | Nils Eklund | Allan Svensson | Helene Friberg | Karin Forslind | Inga Landgré | Efva Lilja | Johan Schildt | Anneli Martini | Eva von Hanno | John Zacharias | Sten Lonnert | Gustav Kling | Leif Göras | Ulf von Zweigbergk | Tomas Laustiola | Bo Rehnberg | Ulf Montan | Paul Kessel | Carlo Barsotti | Federico Caprara | Lamberto Caprara