Elvira Madigan
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ABOUT THE FILM: In Danish and Swedish with English subtitles. Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker (Pia Degermark) and a lieutenant (Tommy Berggren) with a wife and children forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation. With its painterly,
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Cast
Pia Degermark
Hedvig Jensen
Thommy Berggren
Sixten Sparre
Lennart Malmer
Kristoffer
Cleo Jensen
Cleo
Nina Widerberg
Cleo's daughter
Yvonne Ingdal
Hedvig Jensen (voice)
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