Movielogr
Med folket för fosterlandet (1938)
Directed by Sigurd Wallén
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.
Length 106 minutes
Actors
Sigurd Wallén | Linnea Hillberg | Åke Johansson | Hasse Ekman | Eleonor de Floer | Marianne Löfgren | Gösta Cederlund | Kotti Chave | Sven-Eric Gamble | Maritta Marke | Björn Berglund | Eric Abrahamsson | Anders Henrikson | Gun-Mari Kjellström