vilgotsjöman &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:vilgotsjöman @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:10:57 +0200 491 (Vilgot Sjöman, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/491-1964 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 491 (Vilgot Sjöman, 1964)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" Global Forgiveness Day/div div class="img" 491 (1964)/div div class="caption" One of the juvenile delinquents carving a simple arithmetical calculation into a desk during the Reverend's lecture about forgiveness. DP: Gunnar Fischer./div div class="txt" Early 60s, Sweden. A social experiment. Six hopelessly criminal juveniles are packed in a guesthouse – cynically named Objectivity – and loosely supervised by social workers and a reverend. The public servants speak of a new lease on life, God's servant of how Jesus forgives; all speak on their own behalf. We follow the young men closely and sense their need to break out, to be young, to be out of that house. We learn that their world, in or out, is eternally equally irrelevant. "Jesus Christ has promised to forgive you 490 times, whatever you have done… because those were his words. But about the 491st time… He has given no words. None at all." ### – Reverend Mild\ Vilgot Sjöman's 491 is an extremely, bleak, aggressive, and hopeless depiction of youth in postwar Sweden. Forgiveness is a tool of power, a method of control. And as empty as a repetitive lecture./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #GlobalForgivenessDay #VilgotSjöman #LarsGörling #GeorgRiedel #GunnarFischer #BookAdaptation #crime #drama #Sweden #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

491 (Vilgot Sjöman, 1964)

Jul

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Global Forgiveness Day

491 (1964)

One of the juvenile delinquents carving a simple arithmetical calculation into a desk during the Reverend's lecture about forgiveness. DP: Gunnar Fischer.

Early 60s, Sweden. A social experiment. Six hopelessly criminal juveniles are packed in a guesthouse – cynically named Objectivity – and loosely supervised by social workers and a reverend. The public servants speak of a new lease on life, God's servant of how Jesus forgives; all speak on their own behalf. We follow the young men closely and sense their need to break out, to be young, to be out of that house. We learn that their world, in or out, is eternally equally irrelevant.

“Jesus Christ has promised to forgive you 490 times, whatever you have done… because those were his words. But about the 491st time… He has given no words. None at all.”

– Reverend Mild

Vilgot Sjöman's 491 is an extremely, bleak, aggressive, and hopeless depiction of youth in postwar Sweden. Forgiveness is a tool of power, a method of control. And as empty as a repetitive lecture.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #GlobalForgivenessDay #VilgotSjöman #LarsGörling #GeorgRiedel #GunnarFischer #BookAdaptation #crime #drama #Sweden #1960s ★★★★☆

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