All Things Fair
- Johan Widerberg as Stig
- Marika Lagercrantz as Viola
- Tomas of Brömssen as Kjell
- Karin Huldt as Lisbet
- Nina Gunke as Stig's mother
Beautiful is the youth ( Original title: Lust och fägring stor ), also known as the reference titles seduction in the classroom and lessons of love, is a Swedish- Danish film from 1995 directed by the Swede Bo Widerberg, who also wrote the screenplay. .
Action
The fifteen year old Stig lives in Malmö in 1943. He begins an affair with his 37 -year-old English teacher Viola. This is married to an alcoholic Kjell who works very unsuccessful as a seller of lingerie, and wants in the affair the passion that does not experience it in their unhappy marriage.
As Stig befriends Kjell, who brings him the Classical closer, and starts a relationship with the girls of Lisbet, he sees the affair increasingly critical and these are finally on. Viola wants this but continue and takes revenge on Stig that he has finished this.
Publications
The film was released on 3 November 1995 in the Swedish cinema and became a commercial success. Alone in 1996, the film had a number of visitors of 260,000. On January 19, 1996 was a theatrical release in Denmark, which brought in about 74,000 visitors. In the following months, the film was released in several other countries, including on 5 September 1996 in Germany.
Reception
In the Berliner Zeitung you wrote that the film is " solid staged, played well, but not exciting. "
Christiane Peitz described the film in time as Spring Awakening in Swedish. In allusion to the also in competition at the Berlinale films Mutters Courage represented and Holy Week she said also: " The madness and the collapse of civilization in the Europe of 1943 comes closer than anything Widerberg cinematic commemoration of Wajda, or Verhoeven. "
Awards
Beautiful is the youth was shown in February 1996 in the competition section of the 46th International Berlin Film Festival and won both a Silver Bear Special Jury Prize and the Blue Angel for best European film in competition.
At the ceremony of the Film Awards Guldbagge 1996, the film went in the categories " Best Film " and " Best Director " victorious. Also nominated Johan Widerberg and Marika Lagercrantz had been in the lead actor categories.
At the Academy Awards in 1996, the film was nominated for a Swedish contribution as " Best Foreign Language Film ", but the Dutch film Antonia finally had to admit defeat world.