
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.


In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
Håkan Angser
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Eric Bäckman
Micke Larsson
Patrik Anders Edgren
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Björn Englund
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Pär Fredriksson
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Elisabeth Helander
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Gunnar Ivarsson
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Leif Larsson
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Jessika Lundberg
Anna
You, the Living is a drama, comedy, music film released in 2007 exploring themes of new love, airplane, jazz, pickpocket, hairdresser, balcony. Directed by Roy Andersson, it stars Håkan Angser, Eric Bäckman, Patrik Anders Edgren. In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
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