Adalen 31
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Adalen 31 |
| Original title | Ådalen 31 |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bo Widerberg |
| script | Bo Widerberg |
| camera | Jörgen Persson |
| cut | Bo Widerberg |
| occupation | |
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Adalen 31 is a 1969 Swedish drama directed by Bo Widerberg . It covers the 1931 shooting at Ådalen .
action
Sweden 1931: In order to support the striking dockworkers in Marma, the workers in Adalen also go on strike. Harald, father of three sons, has already stopped work for 93 days. His son Kjell spends time with music, like his friend Nisse, he plays jazz with other young people as well as "seriously" in the small village orchestra. Both boys begin to be interested in women. While Nisse can only test Kjell's explanations of erogenous zones on women indirectly, Kjell falls in love with Anna, the daughter of the industrialist Olof, who has returned to Adalen after a while. He is a welcome guest to the Björklund family, and Anna's mother, who knows nothing about her daughter's love, likes to teach Kjell French painting.
The industrialists in the area are starting to get restless as cargo has to be shipped. You cannot imagine that a small cut in wages led to the strike in Marma and the follow-up strikes. At the same time, they do not want to pay any more, since otherwise unskilled workers would almost be treated as skilled workers. In order not to bring work to a complete standstill, the industrialists bring strikebreakers to nearby Lunde. This causes an uproar in Adalen as workers fear they will be replaced by the strike breakers. Riots break out in which strikebreakers are attacked and injured. Harald is soon seen as a traitor because he provides medical care for an injured strike breaker. The indignant residents of Adalen ignore his appeal to talk to the authorities and to continue the strike peacefully. Soon the military will be brought to Lunde to protect the strike breakers.
Kjell and Anna sleep together. Anna soon suspects that she is pregnant. She confides in her mother, who goes with her to Stockholm to have the child aborted. Father Olof doesn't know anything about it. In Adalen, meanwhile, the unrest comes to a head. The workers are moving to Lunde, where they want to defeat the posted military. The military shoots at the demonstrators - Harald and Nisse are among the dead.
Kjell's relationship with Anna is hopeless: Kjell learns of Anna's abortion from a shaken Olof. Kjell's mother Karin falls into lethargy at the loss of her husband, as she doesn't know what to do now. Kjell is the first to get them to actively participate in life again and to go about their work to support the family. He too now wants to look for work. While things are slowly returning to normal in Kjell's family, everyday work begins again, even if Adalen's shots had a lasting impact on Swedish society.
production
Adalen 31 was mainly filmed in Hallstanäs and Bollstabruk . It was the sixth feature film by director Bo Widerberg. Roy Andersson acted as co-director .
The film was released in Swedish cinemas on May 1, 1969 and was shown a few days later at the Cannes International Film Festival . The film was shown at the Viennale in Austria in 1970 . On October 17, 1984 the GDR television showed Adalen 31 on DFF 1 .
criticism
“The narrative of the political events, which is anchored in private life, leads to a committed but not one-sided reconstruction through the nuanced staging,” said the film service . Vincent Canby of the New York Times stated that Widerberg was an "enthusiastic but slightly schizoid director" who, in the film, between "rumbling political activism and a barely controlled passion for visual imagery, is so exuberant that it is intoxicatingly intoxicating" , be torn. For Der Spiegel , Adalen 31 was a “committed film about the bloody suppression of a strike by Swedish dock workers”.
Awards
At the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, Adalen 31 won the Grand Jury Prize . He also ran in the competition for the Golden Palm . Also in 1969, the film won a Guldbagge in the categories of Best Director and Best Actor (Roland Hedlund).
In 1970, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film . The Belgian Unie van de filmkritiek awarded the film the Grand Prix. At the British Academy Film Awards , Adalen 13 was nominated for the United Nations Award in 1970. Also in 1970 he won a Bodil for Best European Film.
Web links
- Adalen 31 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adalen 31 at viennale.at
- ^ Adalen 31. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ "Widerberg is an enthusiastic but slightly schizoid director, torn between his loudly stated political activism and a barely controlled passion for visual images so lush they are intoxicating in a numbing way." Vincent Canby: Adalen 31 (1969) . In: New York Times , September 20, 1969.
- ↑ Died: Bo Widerberg . In: Der Spiegel , No. 19, 1997, p. 238.
- ↑ Adalen 31 on festival-cannes.com