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Anders Mattsson, Lena Settervall, Yasmine Garbi

Peter Watkins's challenging, unorthodox feature on the life of Swedish dramatist August Strindberg uses a mixture of methods to depict the tumultuous life of the iconoclast, including staged interview...( read more  read more... )s, improvisation, photographs and written text. Created to give each individual viewer a unique experience, the biography's seemingly random structure and multilayering of media types invites myriad diverging interpretations and reactions. &NFb;On the DVD format, this film spans two discs; both discs will be shipped to you simultaneously.&NFb_;

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Directed by: Peter Watkins

Release Date: December 31, 1994

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DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007

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  • Phonex
    June 13, 2009
    Phonex
    I am sorry I could not watch THE FREETHINKER yet.

    Evening Land - Aftonlandet 1976, Flixter did not add it yet.

    'Evening Land' depicts ?fictional? events in Europe at that time - beginning with a strike at a shipyard in Copenhagen over the building of four submarines for t...( read more)he French navy: not only because the financially troubled management has proposed a wage freeze to secure the contract, but because it is discovered that the vessels can be fitted with nuclear missiles. At the same time, a summit meeting of European Common Market ministers takes place in Copenhagen, and a group of radical demonstrators kidnap the Danish EEC Minister in protest against the production of nuclear submarines in Denmark, and in support of the strikers? demands. The Danish police not only brutally attack a demonstration by the strikers, they also locate and rescue the kidnapped minister, and capture or kill the ?terrorists?. by Peter Watkins.

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