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.
Unfortunately the movie Kejsaren is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Jösta Hagelbäck | Director |
Writing | Birgitta Trotzig | Novel |
Production | Anna-Lena Wibom | Executive Producer |
Editing | Peter Emanuel Falck | Editor |
Writing | Jösta Hagelbäck | Writer |
Art | Stig Boquist | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Tina Johansson | Costume Design |
Camera | Carl-Gustav Nykvist | Still Photographer |
Camera | Harald Gunnar Paalgard | Director of Photography |
Camera | Sten Holmberg | Director of Photography |
Sound | Ragnar Grippe | Original Music Composer |