Director: Troell, Jan

Key actors Heiskanen, Maria; Persbrandt, Mikael; Christensen, Jesper

Year 2008

Language Swedish (English sub.)

Certificate 15

Duration 110 mins

Country SWE / DEN / NOR / FIN / GER

Genre Period Drama

Format DVD

Swedish period drama directed by Jan Troell. Married at a young age to the boorish Sigfrid (Mikael Persbrandt) in the southern Swedish city of Malmo in the early 1900s, Maria (Maria Heiskanen) faces a bleak future as a housewife, mother and domestic drudge.

After winning a camera in a lottery, she strikes up a friendship with Mr Petersson (Jesper Christensen), owner of the local photography shop, and begins taking her own photographs - a process that affords her a whole new way of seeing and experiencing the world.