TV series

Raskens

1976 · 1 season

A slow, earnest chronicle of rural family life, rich in warmth and hardship, that asks patience but rewards with quiet emotional depth.

Overview: The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
survival
grief
class
redemption
Places: countryside
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

All scales, 0 to 10

Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	5
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Created by: Vilhelm Moberg, Per Sjöstrand
Written by: Vilhelm Moberg
Starring: Sven Wollter, Gurie Nordwall, Viveka Seldahl, Martin Berggren, Evert Lindkvist, Gunilla Nyroos, John Harryson, Christian Zell
Length: 1 seasons, 8 episodes, 60 min each
Network: SVT1
Country: Sweden
Languages: Swedish

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