Raven’s End
A period piece that forgoes nostalgia in favor of a stark examination of working-class struggle, Bo Widerberg’s second feature unfolds in 1936 in the director’s hometown of Malmö. It’s there, in the poor district of Raven’s End, that young Anders (Widerberg’s regular collaborator Tommy Berggren) chases his dream of becoming a writer while growing increasingly disillusioned with the dead-end world that surrounds him: an alcoholic father, a toiling mother, and the ominous specter of Nazism. Delivering a bracing jolt of kitchen-sink realism to Swedish cinema, Widerberg paints an unsparing portrait of youthful idealism bumping up against economic despair.
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Cast
- Tommy Berggren
- Anders
- Keve Hjelm
- The father
- Emy Storm
- The mother
- Ingvar Hirdwall
- Sixten
- Christina Frambäck
- Elsie
- Agneta Prytz
- Neighbor
- Nina Widerberg
- Nina
Credits
- Director
- Bo Widerberg
- Written by
- Bo Widerberg
- Cinematography by
- Jan Lindeström
- First assistant cameraman
- Bruno Rådström
- First assistant cameraman
- Gunnar Lingby
- Camera operator
- Anders Bodin
- Sound by
- Sven Fahlén
- Sound by
- Henning Elvegård
- Editing by
- Wic’ Kjellin
- Art direction by
- Einar Nettelbladt
- Unit manager
- Waldemar Bergendahl
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