The Women on the Roof
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Director Carl-Gustav Nykvist Music director Hakan Moller Country Sweden | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Language Swedish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 15 September 1989 (1989-09-15) Writer Carl-Gustav Nykvist, Lasse Summanen Initial release September 15, 1989 (Sweden) Screenplay Carl-Gustav Nykvist, Lasse Summanen Cast Amanda Ooms (Linnea), Helena Bergström (Anna), Stellan Skarsgård (Willy), Percy Brandt (Fischer), Lars Ori Bäckström (Holger), Katarina Olsson (Gerda)Similar movies Helena Bergstrom movies, Set in Sweden, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Women on the Roof (Swedish: Kvinnorna på taket) is a 1989 Swedish film written and directed by Carl-Gustav Nykvist. It stars Amanda Ooms and Helena Bergström. It was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. At the 25th Guldbagge Awards, Stellan Skarsgård won the award for Best Actor. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Plot
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea (Amanda Ooms) rents an apartment in Stockholm just before World War I. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer (Helena Bergstrom) with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
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