Cinema
Staden i mitt hjärta
Anders Wahlgren · 1992
Synopsis
The filmmaker returns to the Stockholm of his childhood, and to its disappearance. In some twenty years, more than seven hundred buildings in the centre were demolished, and with them the old Klara district, to carry out the Norrmalm redevelopment plan. Old photographs and recent images bring back Malmskillnadsgatan, Brunkebergstorg, Regeringsgatan and the old streets of Klara, and we meet people who lived and worked there. The film states its anger at the decision-makers of the time without hesitation.
Context
First broadcast on Swedish television on 21 April 1992, the film was released in cinemas on 2 October 1992 at the Fågel blå in Stockholm. It revived a debate on the capital's urban planning that lasted through the nineties and the two thousands; when it was shown again in 2009, part of the critical press judged it partial and nostalgic. It has been shown at foreign festivals and forms, with five other films by its author on the city, a box set.
Who it is for
Documentary in Swedish, made of archive footage and interviews; a film with a stance, which owns its anger.
Prizes and reception
Stockholm Prize of the Swedish PEN club and the prize of the Swedish architecture critics in 1992, then the Guldkänga of Dagens Nyheter.