Raven's End
- Thommy Berggren: Anders
- Keve Hjelm: Father
- Emy Storm: Mother
- Ingvar Hirdwall: Sixten
The Raven quarter ( Kvarteret Korpen ) is a Swedish film drama from the year 1963. Bo Widerberg, who also wrote the screenplay, tells in his second directorial effort with a " poetic naturalism ". 1965, the film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated Keve Hjelm was awarded the 1964 Swedish film award Guldbagge for Best Actor.
In Germany, the film had its world premiere on September 5, 1967 in ARD.
Action
1936 "Raven District " of Malmö, a slum which is inhabited by ordinary workers and families with many children. One of them is the focus of the film. The father drinks, can lie his work and visited prefer a football game; home he lets himself sink into the sofa. The harder the mother must act to support her family. The eldest son, Anders, one day hopes to become a great writer.
His novel tells the story of the people of the district. When reached him an invitation from a publisher to Stockholm, he believes in a publication and he is with his parents beside himself with joy. Your expectations will be disappointed, however, the publisher speaks only a nod from. After a while he recognizes and acknowledges from the words of the publisher a message: Who cries, is perceived, but not understood. The longer becomes more evident that the Father has given up all hope of being able to change something about his situation. The cause of his alcoholism, he writes about an affair that had the mother in 1923 with a neighbor. The mother explains Anders on the fact that it took the affair after the father was blue come back home once. Anders gets involved with a young woman from the neighborhood who is pregnant by him. Later he summarizes hope and without breaking the pregnant woman to take the capital.
Criticism
" A somewhat long-winded, but observed exactly, haunting study. "
" The young director Bo Widerberg succeeds, sensitive and yet without drawing any sentimentality the image of a boy who finds itself in a world of dirt and resignation and the force applied to escape his oppressive surroundings. Recommended also for young film fans of 16 years. "