Swedish Stories

Facing the new millenium, four of Sweden's most personal filmmakers give us a fascinating mosaic of the Swedish welfare state in transformation in four documentaries, each of which is its own story. Edwards's Risk is about compulsive gamblers-not low-lifes but average businesspeople and housewives who are addicted to the game and the milieu of money and competition, winners and losers. Christian-Spring Term 1999 by Hedenius gives an understated portrait of the mood of a teenager, a member of the blank generation who nevertheless has dreams. The Homeless, by Jarl, shows that Sweden does have homeless people, and real winters. How they survive in bathrooms and doorways is the subject of this tender but disturbing film. In 98.2Mhz...Dreams in the South, by Troell, a small radio station in the very south of Sweden becomes social central for a group of senior citizens.

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