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We Have Many Names

1976 · 51 min

A quiet, suffocating chamber piece that slowly strips a woman's composure away, leaving you uneasy and moved.

Directed by
Mai Zetterling
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Mai Zetterling, Ewa Fröling, Gunnar Furumo
Overview
A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?

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Directed by
Mai Zetterling
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Mai Zetterling, Ewa Fröling, Gunnar Furumo
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • family
  • grief
  • madness
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, tv movie
Directed by
Mai Zetterling
Written by
Agneta Elers-Jarleman
Starring
Mai Zetterling, Ewa Fröling, Gunnar Furumo, Ernst Günther, Gun Jönsson, Marianne Stjernqvist
Cinematography
Rune Ericson
Runtime
51 min
Country
Sweden
Languages
Swedish

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