Cinema
Seppan
Agneta Fagerström-Olsson · 1987
Synopsis
Winter 1961, in Tullinge, south of Stockholm. The district around the AB Separator factory is called Seppan; men from Finland, Poland, Russia, Hungary and Germany work there. Sara, eleven, daughter of one of the directors, lives in the management villa; despite the class difference, she befriends Pirjo, a Finnish girl from the workers' housing. The two girls explore the world of adults, its quarrels, its forbidden magazines and its couples, and discover death, violence and injustice early.
Context
The film is largely autobiographical: its author grew up in this neighbourhood, where her father ran the company, and her friends were the children of the factory workers. It was first broadcast on Swedish television on 21 April 1986, in two long episodes; after the reception it received and several awards, it was re-edited into a single film of one hundred and twenty minutes and released in cinemas on 1 May 1987, at the Fågel blå in Stockholm. Peter Stormare plays Sara's father. It is one of the first images on screen of a Sweden made up of families from elsewhere.
Who it is for
One hundred and twenty minutes in cinemas, one hundred and thirty on television, in Swedish. Everything is seen at the height of eleven-year-old children.
Prizes and reception
First prize at the Créteil women's film festival in 1987, after several awards, some of them abroad, for the television version.