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Post by petrolino on Dec 25, 2019 18:47:20 GMT
I was more curious, in general, to ask if people in Sweden remember these films with any fondness.
For example, I meet plenty of Italians and work with some nice Italian people. Yet, I've not met a single Italian in person who knows any of the Italian horror movies I like. Usually, they've seen a couple of Dario Argento movies and that's it, or they've heard of 'Suspiria'. The films they remember were more aimed at the domestic market.
I was just kidding! I wasn't angry! In our socialist democracy we had to know about those things. And we had to watch extremely boring repulsive persons explain about sex, and we had special medical stores that sold that C-thing balloon very openly, where dirty old men hung around. As a kid it was that shop we shouldn't look at too much, in case some relative were hanging outside. The reason it was sold openly, was that there was a program created by The Board of Sexual Education, that, because of what had happened, no child should never be born unwanted. Just a little history... The Swedish films I've seen were really depressing and I didn't like them. The one exception I can think of is the inventive comedy 'What The Swedish Butler Saw' (1975), but this movie was directed by the American Vernon Becker, had a British lead actress in Sue Longhurst, and a Danish lead actor in Ole Soltoft, so perhaps it avoided the depressing Swedish reeducation.
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