Kejsaren

• 9.0 Drama
• 1979-02-24
• 97 minutes mins

Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.

Starring:

Anders Åberg (Eije Ström) Gerissa Jalander (Mother) Bo Lindström (Albin Ström) Tomas Norström (Farmhand) Emy Storm (Gerda) Jan Dolata (The Pimp's helper) Jan Jönsson (Madman at St. Lars) Anne-Lie Kinnunen (Singer at Tavern) Gisela von Matuska (Woman at the Polish Church) Urszula Repinska (Tavern guest)

Director:

Jösta Hagelbäck

Writer:

Jösta Hagelbäck