07 Feb 2019
Moa Martinson - Mother of the Country
Documentary about Moa Martinson.
Thomas Verbogt - I started writing when I was three
Documentary about the writer Thomas Verbogt and the creation of his latest work.
Documentary about the writer Thomas Verbogt and the creation of his latest work. The film shows how Verbogt takes a radical experience from his earliest childhood as the starting point for a novel. Drawn animations, combined with filmed scenes, depict how the writer's imagination sprouts from a literary character.
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