Release date: 14 Jul 2015
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Film Info
SYNOPSIS
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy’s development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people—all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film—presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut—is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema’s greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
Order Link: Amazon
Film Info
- Sweden
- 1966
- 169 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.66:1
- Swedish
- Spine #766
SYNOPSIS
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy’s development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people—all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film—presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut—is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema’s greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh
- New conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie
- New interviews with actor Eddie Axberg and producer and screenwriter Bengt Forslund
- Interlude in Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell, starring Max von Sydow
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu
New cover by F. Ron Miller
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