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The Last Sentence

  • Jan Troell
  • 126 min
  • Sweden, Norway
  • 2012
  • Fiction
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Jan Troell’s latest feature film is a grandiose portrait of the newspaper man Torgny Segerstedt and his resistance to Nazism.

During the thirties and forties, both the government as well as the royal house in Stockholm were keen on keeping Sweden neutral and outside the War. But this balancing act was disturbed by one man on Sweden’s west coast. In the daily newspaper “Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning,” Torgny Segerstedt wrote one scathing article after the other against Hitler and Nazism. In enthralling black-and-white pictures, Jan Troell portrays the courageous editor-in-chief’s struggle, in parallel with his complicated relationships with three women at the same time. With nuanced and beautiful portraits, Jesper Christensen and Pernilla August lead a wonderful ensemble including among others Ulla Skoog, Lennart Hjulström, and Björn Granath.

- Jonas Holmberg

Language
Swedish
Subtitles
English
Original title
Dom över död man
  • Historia
  • Drama
  • Nationalism
  • Krig
  • Kärlek
  • Retrospektiv
Director
Jan Troell
Producer
Francy Suntinger
Screenplay
Jan Troell, Klaus Rifbjerg
Cinematographer
Mischa Gavrjusjov
Editors
Jan Troell, Ulrika Rang
Music
Gaute Storaas
Cast
Ulla Skoog , Pernilla August , Jesper Christensen , Björn Granath