Kejsaren

Story

Synopsis

Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.

Director

Jösta Hagelbäck

Writers

Jösta Hagelbäck, Birgitta Trotzig

Language

Swedish

Country

Sweden

Release date

24 February 1979

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Anders Åberg

  Eije Ström

• Gerissa Jalander

  Mother

• Bo Lindström

  Albin Ström

• 

  Tomas Norström

  Farmhand

• 

  Emy Storm

  Gerda

• Jan Dolata

  The Pimp's helper

• 

  Jan Jönsson

  Madman at St. Lars

• Anne-Lie Kinnunen

  Singer at Tavern

• 

  Gisela von Matuska

  Woman at the Polish Church

• Urszula Repinska

  Tavern guest

• Bill Salo

  Accordion player

• Renata Orlik

  Waitress