Cinema
Raven's End
Kvarteret Korpen
Bo Widerberg · 1963
Synopsis
Malmö, spring 1936: the Depression is still weighing on people, and Hitler is preparing the Berlin Games. In the working-class district of Korpen, Anders, a young factory worker, lives with his parents: his mother does cleaning and laundry to keep the family going, his father, a salesman out of work, drinks what he earns. Anders wants to write; he has sent a publisher in Stockholm a manuscript about his neighbourhood and its inhabitants. His girlfriend Elsie and his friend Sixten, a footballer who dreams of Paris, would like to take him to the May Day march. One day a letter arrives from the publisher.
Context
It is its director's second feature, shot in the summer of 1963, a few months after the first. It was filmed in the real Korpen district, much of which was demolished a few years later. The father is played by Keve Hjelm, and Thommy Berggren found his first major role in it. The film was presented in competition at Cannes in 1964, and Keve Hjelm received a Guldbagge for this role.
Who it is for
One hundred and one minutes, in Swedish. A realist narrative that advances through scenes of everyday life.
Prizes and reception
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Chaplin Prize 1963, and voted in 1995 the best Swedish film of all time by the critics.
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