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Steel

1940 · 90 min

A sober, talky industrial drama about inheritance and hard choices, more interested in arguments and loyalties than in spectacle.

Directed by: Per Lindberg
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tore Svennberg, Signe Hasso, Olof Widgren

Overview: The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security

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Directed by: Per Lindberg
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tore Svennberg, Signe Hasso, Olof Widgren

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
work
class
ambition
loyalty
Places: workplace
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Per Lindberg
Written by: Rudolf Värnlund
Starring: Tore Svennberg, Signe Hasso, Olof Widgren, Carl Ström, Karin Swanström, Georg Rydeberg, Gunnar Sjöberg, Gudrun Brost
Music: Gunnar Johansson, Jules Sylvain
Cinematography: Åke Dahlqvist
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Sweden
Languages: Swedish

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