Sweden &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Sweden @settima@mograph.social Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:42:20 +0200 Les créatures [The Creatures] (Agnès Varda, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nkt9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les créatures [The Creatures] (Agnès Varda, 1966)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Les créatures (1966)/div div class="caption" Mylène (Catherine Deneuve) and Edgar (Michel Piccoli) Piccoli playing checkers at a small table. DPs: Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky & Jean Orjollet./div div class="txt" "Everything is rotten. Decadence is everywhere. Why fight it?" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #AgnèsVarda #MichelPiccoli #CatherineDeneuve #PierreBarbaud #WillyKurant #WilliamLubtchansky #JeanOrjollet #drama #mystery #SciFi #romance #fantasy #checkers #games #France #Sweden #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Les créatures [The Creatures] (Agnès Varda, 1966)

Aug

29

Les créatures (1966)

Mylène (Catherine Deneuve) and Edgar (Michel Piccoli) Piccoli playing checkers at a small table. DPs: Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky & Jean Orjollet.

“Everything is rotten. Decadence is everywhere. Why fight it?”

#FilmDuJour #August #AgnèsVarda #MichelPiccoli #CatherineDeneuve #PierreBarbaud #WillyKurant #WilliamLubtchansky #JeanOrjollet #drama #mystery #SciFi #romance #fantasy #checkers #games #France #Sweden #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nkt9 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bfjt <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" 1971/div div class="img" Äppelkriget (1971).png)/div div class="caption" Blond people read two bright-yellow posters from two well-known, real-world Swedish newspapers. There's news about Deutschneyland. DP: Lars Swanberg./div div class="txt" "Look! Those tourists have already arrived. And they pitch their tents IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET! It's bloody awful." ### – bicycle repairman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #TageDanielsson #Per Grundén #GöstaEkman #StureEricson #IngvarOttoson #PerWaldvik #YvonneLombard #MaxVonSydow #EvertTaube #LarsSwanberg #comedy #witches #witchcraft #fantasy #satire #Sweden #1970s ★★★★★ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)

Aug

27

1971

Äppelkriget (1971)

Blond people read two bright-yellow posters from two well-known, real-world Swedish newspapers. There's news about Deutschneyland. DP: Lars Swanberg.

“Look! Those tourists have already arrived. And they pitch their tents IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET! It's bloody awful.”

– bicycle repairman

#FilmDuJour #August #TageDanielsson #Per Grundén #GöstaEkman #StureEricson #IngvarOttoson #PerWaldvik #YvonneLombard #MaxVonSydow #EvertTaube #LarsSwanberg #comedy #witches #witchcraft #fantasy #satire #Sweden #1970s ★★★★★ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bfjt Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bqs1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1785/div div class="img" Cagliostro (1929).png)/div div class="caption" A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RichardOswald #JohannesVonGünther #HansStüwe #RenéeHéribel #AlfredAbel #IvanKovalSamborsky #RinaDeLiguoro #MauriceDesfassiaux #JulesKruger #SilentFilm #fragment #drama #history #melodrama #BookAdaptation #Germany #France #Sweden #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Cagliostro – Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)

Aug

15

1785

Cagliostro (1929)

A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger.

 

#FilmDuJour #August #RichardOswald #JohannesVonGünther #HansStüwe #RenéeHéribel #AlfredAbel #IvanKovalSamborsky #RinaDeLiguoro #MauriceDesfassiaux #JulesKruger #SilentFilm #fragment #drama #history #melodrama #BookAdaptation #Germany #France #Sweden #1920s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bqs1 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0200 Ansiktet [The Face / The Magician] (Ingmar Bergman, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-04fb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ansiktet [The Face / The Magician] (Ingmar Bergman, 1958)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Ansiktet (1958)/div div class="caption" Granny Vogler (Naima Wifstrand) telling a sobbing Sara (Bibi Andersson) that yes, she may indeed be a witch. DP: Gunnar Fischer./div div class="txt" "I see what I see, and I know what I know. But nobody believes me." ### – Granny Vogler /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #IngmarBergman #MaxVonSydow #IngridThulin #BibiAndersson #NaimaWifstrand #BirgittaPettersson #ErikNordgren #GunnarFischer #witches #witchcraft #comedy #horror #drama #mystery #Sweden #1950s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Ansiktet [The Face / The Magician] (Ingmar Bergman, 1958)

Jul

14

Ansiktet (1958)

Granny Vogler (Naima Wifstrand) telling a sobbing Sara (Bibi Andersson) that yes, she may indeed be a witch. DP: Gunnar Fischer.

“I see what I see, and I know what I know. But nobody believes me.”

– Granny Vogler

#FilmDuJour #July #IngmarBergman #MaxVonSydow #IngridThulin #BibiAndersson #NaimaWifstrand #BirgittaPettersson #ErikNordgren #GunnarFischer #witches #witchcraft #comedy #horror #drama #mystery #Sweden #1950s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-04fb Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200 L'uomo più velenoso del cobra [The Man More Venomous Than the Cobra / Human... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g1q4 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" L'uomo più velenoso del cobra [The Man More Venomous Than the Cobra / Human Cobras] (Bitto Albertini, 1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="X" /div div class="img" L'uomo più velenoso del cobra (1971)/div div class="caption" Leslie (Erika Blanc) and Tony Garden (George Ardisson). DP: Emilio Foriscot./div div class="txt" "For a handful of coins!" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May BittoAlbertini #GeorgeArdisson #ErikaBlanc #StelvioCipriani #EmilioForiscot #giallo #Italy #Spain #Sweden #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

L'uomo più velenoso del cobra [The Man More Venomous Than the Cobra / Human Cobras] (Bitto Albertini, 1971)

May

19

L'uomo più velenoso del cobra (1971)

Leslie (Erika Blanc) and Tony Garden (George Ardisson). DP: Emilio Foriscot.

“For a handful of coins!”

#FilmDuJour #May BittoAlbertini #GeorgeArdisson #ErikaBlanc #StelvioCipriani #EmilioForiscot #giallo #Italy #Spain #Sweden #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g1q4 Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bröllopsbesvär [Wedding: Swedish Style] (Åke Falck, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v844 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bröllopsbesvär [Wedding: Swedish Style] (Åke Falck, 1964)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Bröllopsbesvär (1964)/div div class="caption" Bride and groom, and resentfulness at front. DP: Rune Ericson./div div class="txt" A dysfunctional family &nbsp; On a wedding day, and night, a family's dirty secrets are laid bare. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #ÅkeFalck #StigDagerman #JarlKulle #ChristinaSchollin #EdvinAdolphson #IsaQuensel #LarsEkborg #GeorgRiedel #RuneEricson #family #wedding #drama #BookAdaptation #Sweden #1960s/div /section ]]>

Bröllopsbesvär [Wedding: Swedish Style] (Åke Falck, 1964)

Nov

11

Bröllopsbesvär (1964)

Bride and groom, and resentfulness at front. DP: Rune Ericson.

A dysfunctional family*

 

On a wedding day, and night, a family's dirty secrets are laid bare.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #ÅkeFalck #StigDagerman #JarlKulle #ChristinaSchollin #EdvinAdolphson #IsaQuensel #LarsEkborg #GeorgRiedel #RuneEricson #family #wedding #drama #BookAdaptation #Sweden #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v844 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:08:13 +0100 Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y47z <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Nattmara (1965)/div div class="caption" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to read/summary Hands hold up a small diary. The camera is focussed on Tuesday the 19supth/sup of October, 1965. Handwriting, a chicken scrawl, reads CITROEN A66692 MAJ BERG ✝. Besides that the week is uneventful. DP: Max Wilén./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #ArneMattsson #UllaJacobsson #GunnarHellström #SvenLindberg #MimiPollak #MonaMalm #TordPeterson #GeorgRiedel #MaxWilén #drama #mystery #crime #thriller #Sweden #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965)

Oct

19

Tue

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Nattmara (1965)
spoiler warning: click to read

Hands hold up a small diary. The camera is focussed on Tuesday the 19th of October, 1965. Handwriting, a chicken scrawl, reads CITROEN A66692 MAJ BERG ✝. Besides that the week is uneventful. DP: Max Wilén.

#FilmDuJour #October #ArneMattsson #UllaJacobsson #GunnarHellström #SvenLindberg #MimiPollak #MonaMalm #TordPeterson #GeorgRiedel #MaxWilén #drama #mystery #crime #thriller #Sweden #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y47z Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gcfr <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" aquavit/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Vargtimmen (1968).jpg)/div div class="caption" Digestifs served with glass peepers Skål! DP: Sven Nykvist./div div class="txt" "This is my supper, you see. Lindhorst, who knows the world, says that old harlots have a morbid desire to satisfy their mouths and stomachs." ### – Gamla Fru von Merkens /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #aquavit #IngmarBergman #MaxVonSydow #LivUllmann #GertrudFridh #GeorgRydeberg #ErlandJosephson #IngridThulin #LarsJohanWerle #SvenNykvist #Hooptober #drama #mystery #Sweden #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)

Oct

4

aquavit

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Vargtimmen (1968)

Digestifs served with glass peepers Skål! DP: Sven Nykvist.

“This is my supper, you see. Lindhorst, who knows the world, says that old harlots have a morbid desire to satisfy their mouths and stomachs.”

– Gamla Fru von Merkens

#FilmDinner #aquavit #IngmarBergman #MaxVonSydow #LivUllmann #GertrudFridh #GeorgRydeberg #ErlandJosephson #IngridThulin #LarsJohanWerle #SvenNykvist #Hooptober #drama #mystery #Sweden #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gcfr Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:16:24 +0200 Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mrdh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" National Apple Dumpling Day /div div class="img" Äppelkriget (1971)/div div class="caption" Locals and a centaur – half man, half papier-mâché – enjoy a drink. DP: Lars Swanberg./div div class="txt" Apples, or dumplings, for National Apple Dumpling Day (USA) – What are you gonna do with tons of apples? They can't be sold! Ask any apple farmer! They just pile up and rot! – The apple farmers? – No. The apples! A beautiful, picturesque part of Sweden will become… Deutschneyland! At least, that's the brilliant business plan Herr Volkswagner has. But the local apple farmers – a large family that's half human, half mythological creatures – have no need for an amusement park on their grounds. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #AppleDumplingDay #apples #fruit #TageDanielsson #Per Grundén #GöstaEkman #StureEricson #IngvarOttoson #PerWaldvik #YvonneLombard #MaxVonSydow #EvertTaube #LarsSwanberg #comedy #witches #witchcraft #fantasy #satire #Sweden #1970s ★★★★★ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)

Sep

17

National Apple Dumpling Day

Äppelkriget (1971)

Locals and a centaur – half man, half papier-mâché – enjoy a drink. DP: Lars Swanberg.

Apples, or dumplings, for National Apple Dumpling Day (USA)

– What are you gonna do with tons of apples? They can't be sold! Ask any apple farmer! They just pile up and rot! – The apple farmers? – No. The apples!

A beautiful, picturesque part of Sweden will become… Deutschneyland! At least, that's the brilliant business plan Herr Volkswagner has. But the local apple farmers – a large family that's half human, half mythological creatures – have no need for an amusement park on their grounds.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #AppleDumplingDay #apples #fruit #TageDanielsson #Per Grundén #GöstaEkman #StureEricson #IngvarOttoson #PerWaldvik #YvonneLombard #MaxVonSydow #EvertTaube #LarsSwanberg #comedy #witches #witchcraft #fantasy #satire #Sweden #1970s ★★★★★ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mrdh Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0200 Månen är en grön ost [The Moon Is a Green Cheese] (Mai Zetterling, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ck21 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Månen är en grön ost [The Moon Is a Green Cheese] (Mai Zetterling, 1977)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" violet/div div class="img" Månen är en grön ost (1977)/div div class="caption" A woman in a violet dress and sunhat, plays a harp in the middle of a lake (via). DP: John Bulmer./div div class="txt" description Violet in food or fashion. If in doubt, pick a title with ALL the colours of the rainbow! &nbsp; During their stay in the family summer house, two sisters imagine themselves as adults, once for every colour of the rainbow. &nbsp; /description the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #violet #colours #MaiZetterling #IngvarBoman #LarsEdström #EwaFröling #JillPurce #KatarinaStrandmark #AndersSöderlund #WalterSöderlund #HåkanWallbom #RogerWallis #JohnBulmer #fantasy #Sweden #1970s/div /section ]]>

Månen är en grön ost [The Moon Is a Green Cheese] (Mai Zetterling, 1977)

Aug

21

violet

Månen är en grön ost (1977)

A woman in a violet dress and sunhat, plays a harp in the middle of a lake (via). DP: John Bulmer.

Violet in food or fashion. If in doubt, pick a title with ALL the colours of the rainbow!*

 

During their stay in the family summer house, two sisters imagine themselves as adults, once for every colour of the rainbow.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #violet #colours #MaiZetterling #IngvarBoman #LarsEdström #EwaFröling #JillPurce #KatarinaStrandmark #AndersSöderlund #WalterSöderlund #HåkanWallbom #RogerWallis #JohnBulmer #fantasy #Sweden #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ck21 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:32:00 +0200