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Amorosa (1986)

Amorosa (1986)

Drama
Release Date: 1986, March 14
Directors: Mai Zetterling
Countries: Sweden
Production: Sandrews, SVT Drama, SVT Drama, Svenska Filminstitutet, Svenska Filminstitutet
Cast: Inga Landgré, Inga Gill, Erland Josephson, Mimi Pollak, Gunnel Broström, Margreth Weivers, Philip Zandén, Johan Rabaeus, Anja Landgré, Stina Ekblad, Rico Rönnbäck, Allan Svensson

Overview:

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Keywords:

woman director