Pegg, Eva, Baby and Emmy — four self-supporting female office workers — share a flat and try to make their way in the rapidly modernizing but still very patriarchal Stockholm of the early 1900s.

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The Norrtull Gang belongs among the most courageous and enjoyable films of the European decade. Films prior to 1923 had presented individual female characters of flesh and blood, but The Norrtull Gang established a precedent in dealing with a cast dominated by four lively women. From the opening sequence, the intertitles are unusual in reflecting a person’s thoughts and memories. The screenplay by Hjalmar Bergman transcends the familiar image of women as decorative objects. The four who make up the “gang” take city life in their stride. One loses her job after campaigning for strike action at the office. Another resigns after the boss has flirted with her once too often. The film resembles a witty book of memoirs, almost a diary. Lindberg’s direction escapes the conventions of the time so that his women still look quite modern with their non-nonsense coiffures, for example, and the minutiae of everyday life come across vividly. Seventeen years later he would again demonstrate his gift for directing actresses, in The June Night.

Peter Cowie (Scandinavian Cinema, 1990)

	
Norrtullsligan (Per Lindberg, 1923).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
Size: 	500 MiB
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Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:Swedish intertitles, English

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In the 1950s two films were directed by a woman [in Sweden, the other one being Mimi Pollaks Rätten att älska]. Barbro Boman had worked as a production assistant in the 1940s after which she wrote scripts herself and was also head of Svensk Filmindustri’s script department for a period. She directed two films, of which It’s Never Too Late (Det är aldrig för sent) (1956) was her first. It tells the story of a couple who are planning to divorce. The film is based on flashbacks that recount three generations of women: the main character Görel, her mother and grandmother, and their methods of solving their problems. As a new director, Boman was treated well and the reviewers wished her the best for the future.

Nordic National Cinemas (1998)

1.33GB | 1h 59mn | 1028×556 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9ED347762EC1E8C/Det_ar_aldrig_for_sent_(Barbro_Boman,_1956).mkv
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Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:Swedish,English

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