31 Mar 2021
The Book of Fish
When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
Skerry Fairy-Tale
The year is 1891. The director of MoDo, Frans Kempe, is about to build the largest and most modern sawmill in Europe and a complete ideal society after his own mind. The place he chooses is Norrbyskär, some skerries in the Baltic Sea outside the cost of Västerbotten in northern Sweden. The experimental society with it's 1500 inhabitants and the large sawmill will live for almost 60 years.
Top Billed Cast
Åsa Arhammar Sune Berglund Per Lundholm Eivor Långström Ola Nilsson Tage Nilsson Matts Carlgren Rinaldo Forsgren Agnes Hellman Birger Hägglund Wanda Rantamäki Harald Ögren Gunnel Ögren Sofia Lundström Narrator (voice)
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