The story of director Suzanne Osten's mother Gerd is told in this film set against the backdrop of a neutral Sweden during World War II. Osten’s mother had always wanted to produce a film, and although the inspiration was there after a 1939 meeting with Jean-Louis Barrault in Paris, even advice from notables such as Berthold Brecht and love affairs that offered some spiritual encouragement, could not stem the gradual and inexorable erosion of her mental stability. By 1944, Gerd was ill enough to be diagnosed as insane. As Gerd destabilizes, her mental afflictions are called forth in avant-garde, surreal visions that move in and out of the reality that carries the woman forward each day.
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Director: Suzanne Osten
Screenplay: Tove Ellefsen, Suzanne Osten
Starring: Ida Lotta Backman
Country: Sweden
Runtime: 91 min.
China Women's Film Festival