Postwar Nordic cinema

Bergman shot for forty years in a country of nine million people, with the same crew and often the same actors, films in which four women in a red house wait for one of them to die. Around him the North produced a cinema of interiority and landscape: Troell followed Swedish peasants emigrating to America, Widerberg filmed a doomed love affair in summer light. In Finland, Kaurismäki invented on the contrary a motionless comedy in which taciturn workers take the blows of life without a single word.

works 6

• NovelThe EmigrantsUtvandrarnaVilhelm Moberg · 1949Peasants of a poor parish decide to leave for America, and first they must cross the sea.Literature
• CinemaOne Summer of HappinessHon dansade en sommarArne Mattsson · 1951A summer in the countryside, two young people in love, and a village that does not take kindly to it.Cinema
• CinemaElvira MadiganBo Widerberg · 1967An officer and a tightrope walker leave everything behind to live together, penniless and pursued.Cinema
• CinemaThe EmigrantsUtvandrarnaJan Troell · 1971A family of farmers from Småland decides to leave for America, and first they must cross the ocean.Cinema
• CinemaThe Match Factory GirlTulitikkutehtaan tyttöAki Kaurismäki · 1990In the Helsinki of the eighties, a factory worker whom nobody notices endures humiliation after humiliation, at home as elsewhere.Cinema
• CinemaShow Me LoveFucking ÅmålLukas Moodysson · 1998In a place where nothing happens, a sixteen-year-old girl loves another girl and tells no one.Cinema