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Mot nya tider

Mot nya tider

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 6, 1939

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Mot nya tider

Production Companies

Svensk Talfilm

Director

Sigurd Wallén

Description

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.