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Jan 18, 2022 · A farm worker is struggling with humiliation at work. The man has a disability and is treated badly by his supervisor. Eventually he flees his job and finds ...
Skarsgård's performance may be the best throughout the whole history of Swedish film. Sven and the other farmers over the countryside of Skåne, in southern Sweden, have to endure the mental torture from the factory owner in the district, The Evil Man, played by Hasse Alfredson himself.
Watchlist. NEW. A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in. It´s the 1930's in Skåne, the south of Sweden. Sven (Stellan ...
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The Simple-Minded Murderer (Swedish: Den enfaldige mördaren) is a 1982 Swedish drama film directed by Hans Alfredson, starring Stellan Skarsgård, as the feeble-minded Sven Olsson. It was released to cinemas in Sweden on 12 February 1982.
Set in Sweden during what appears to be the late 1930s, The Simple-Minded Murderer relates the events that led to Höglund's murder by the farmhand whom he had mistreated for years. This farmhand named Sven has a cleft palate.
The simple-minded murderer expertly crafted a simplistic storyline of horrific wealthy businessmen against an honest feeble-minded Sven was a harrowing experience. Stellan Skarsgård's magnificent bittersweet performances brung a purity to the oppression the character is forced to suffer.
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Overview. The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family.
