Sweden - Hell or Paradise?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sweden - Hell or Paradise? |
| Original title | Svezia, inferno e paradiso |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luigi Scattini |
| script | Luigi Scattini |
| production | PAC / Caravel / Atlas |
| music | Piero Umiliani |
| camera | Claudio Racca |
| cut | Luigi Scattini |
Sweden - Hell or Paradise? is the German title of an Italian Mondo film (original: Svezia, inferno e paradiso, English version: Sweden: Heaven and Hell ) from 1968, directed by Luigi Scattini .
The film consists of nine parts that show different aspects of sexuality in Sweden , for example the lesbian nightclubs, the porn films, the “ swinging lifestyle ” of married couples or the sex education of adolescents. The film also deals with drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide in Sweden. The script was based on a report by Enrico Altavilla .
The film is a so-called "pseudo-documentation", that is, it uses the creative form of the documentary film , but its content is pure fiction, in which scenes staged and directed by a speaker from the off (in the original Enrico Maria Salerno speaks the connecting Parts of the film) are only apparently identified as documentary material. The lexicon of international films characterized him as follows:
"The film, made in 1968, pretends to want to dispel those stereotypes that it is full of itself."
Film Mese judged that "the Swedes Scattinis" were "pretty much determined by naked femininity"; the overall impression remains "due to the superficiality below that of a good television report."
The soundtrack , composed by Piero Umiliani , contained a passage that made its own career as a song under the title Mah Nà Mah Nà and became internationally popular primarily through a scenic puppet show on Sesame Street in 1969 and in the first episode of the Muppet Show in 1976. You can also hear the following songs (and their performers): "You Tried to Warn me" and "Sleep Now Little One" ( Lydia MacDonald) , "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" ( Anna Lena ), "Santa Lucia" and "L ' incidente ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sweden - Hell or Paradise? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Lexicon of International Films , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1991; Volume 7, p. 3360
- ^ Film Mese, 19/20, September 1968
- ^ Gino Moliterno: The A to Z of Italian Cinema . Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 2008 (therein: Piero Umiliani , pp. 319-320)
- ^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: "Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film" vol. 3, p. 531