Synopsis wrote:
This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote ‘Gertrud’ from which Carl Dreyer’s last film was made, and Doctor Glas’ (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng)

Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won’t commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he’s pushed into marrying the girl he’s been sleeping with.

He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film’s central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.

Den allvarsamma leken (1977).mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 35mn
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https://nitro.download/view/F3195B3A97A2EE2/Den_allvarsamma_leken_(1977).mkv

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:English, Norwegian

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Synopsis:
Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villagers see her as an outsider — she is suspicious from the start. The year is 1625, and stories of witches conjuring up evil are a part of the daily culture. Eli unwittingly makes matters worse for herself when she is able to cure the sick with herbs, and when she begins an affair with Aslak (Bjoern Skagestad) a farmhand — clearly she must have cast a spell on him. This all adds up to a witch hunt with a ready-made “witch.” Eli, in the end, is officially accused of witchcraft by a devious bailiff, while Ingeborg makes every attempt to save her, and Aslak himself does not survive the stress — hardly a good omen for the outcome of the trial.

Venice Film Festival (1981)
Won – Pasinetti Award (Best Actress) – Lil Terselius
Won – Special Mention – Anja Breien (for historical reconstruction.)
Nominated – Golden Lion – Anja Breien

1.23GB | 1h 28m | 672×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D38223DB3623416/Forfolgelsen_(1981).mkv

Language(s):Norwegian
Subtitles:English,Norwegian

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Synopsis wrote:
Shipowner Kai Skaug is dead. The parson in his funeral speech speaks of a man who passed away in his prime, only 54 years old. The flower-decorated crematorium is filled with mourners. In the first row sits his old mother, his brother and sister, his brother- and sister-in-law, his nephews and cousings – his next of kin….

Up till now they have had only occasional contact with one another – superficial and unbinding. Now the inheritance binds them together with unloosable bonds. The will assums that the company shall be run by the united family. Should this prove impossible, everything is to be donated to cancer research. The inheritance changes the lives of all of them and brings hidden conflicts into the open. And when they all have been stripped naked, one fundamental question remains: Who has in fact created the values? Who deserves the inheritance?

Cannes Film Festival (1979):
Nominated – Palme d’Or
Won – Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention

1.25GB | 1h 32m | 674×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A52EDBA9D44FF6D/Arven_(1979).mkv

Language:Norwegian
Subtitles:English,Norwegian

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