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Les feux de la vie

Original title: Här har du ditt liv
  • 1966
  • M
  • 2h 49m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.3K
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Les feux de la vie (1966)
Drama

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.

  • Director
    • Jan Troell
  • Writers
    • Bengt Forslund
    • Jan Troell
    • Eyvind Johnson
  • Stars
    • Eddie Axberg
    • Gudrun Brost
    • Ulla Akselson
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    1.3K
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    • Director
      • Jan Troell
    • Writers
      • Bengt Forslund
      • Jan Troell
      • Eyvind Johnson
    • Stars
      • Eddie Axberg
      • Gudrun Brost
      • Ulla Akselson
    • 8User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Eddie Axberg
    Eddie Axberg
    • Olof Persson
    Gudrun Brost
    Gudrun Brost
    • Olof's Stepmother
    Ulla Akselson
    • Olof's Mother
    Bo Wahlström
    • Older brother
    Rick Axberg
    • Second brother
    Holger Löwenadler
    Holger Löwenadler
    • Kristiansson
    Göran Lindberg
    • Olsson
    Tage Sjögren
    • Lund
    Tage Jonsson
    • Linus
    Allan Edwall
    Allan Edwall
    • August
    Anna Maria Blind
    Anna Maria Blind
    • Woman in Tale
    Birger Lensander
    Birger Lensander
    • Brickworks Intendant
    Max von Sydow
    Max von Sydow
    • Smålands-Pelle
    Ulf Palme
    Ulf Palme
    • Larsson
    Jan-Erik Lindqvist
    Jan-Erik Lindqvist
    • Johansson
    Börje Nyberg
    Börje Nyberg
    • Intendant
    Gunnar Björnstrand
    Gunnar Björnstrand
    • Lundgren
    Signe Stade
    Signe Stade
    • Maria
    • Director
      • Jan Troell
    • Writers
      • Bengt Forslund
      • Jan Troell
      • Eyvind Johnson
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    User reviews8

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    8olle-hogrell

    Astonishing cinematography

    The movie is about a young man, 15 yo Olof, leaving his home and starting a life on his own. An Australian friend said: "This is Art House". I don´t agree. This movie captures ordinary people in the early 1900-hundreds, struggling to survive in a harsh environment and dreaming dreams ordinary, poor people dreamt, and still dream. The dream of a better future. That is, in a way, as mainstream as It could be. Another thing is that Olof´s saga is told with an outstanding level of cinematography. Jan Troell masters his tools extraordinarily, telling the story with extreme close-ups, astonishing panoramas, over-exposures, beautiful colors and grainy black&White footage. The sense of pictures and details characterizes Jan Troell´s work. It´s no wonder this amazing movie led him to the assignment of directing "The Emigrants" and "The New Land". Those movies made him internationally famous. Watch this, and you will see why.
    8AlsExGal

    Swedish drama from director Jan Troell

    The nearly three-hour film tracks the teenage years of Olof (Eddie Axberg) in the late 1910's. He leaves home at age 15 to find work, settling in at a lumber company, meeting odd characters and learning about life. Olof later moves on to working at a movie theater, and eventually a traveling circus. His experiences shape his outlook, as does his voracious reading, with a particular interest in philosophy.

    Lyrical, meandering, often beautiful, this was director Troell's feature debut. It's a snapshot of Sweden at a particular time and among a particular class, but the film holds universal appeal thanks to the quality of its compositions and the effective performances. The secondary characters come and go, with Axberg's Olof being the one constant, and he anchors the film well. The cinematography is mostly B&W, but there are bits here and there in color, usually memories or imaginings of Olof's. Recommended.
    5adamshl

    Beautifully Mounted Film

    Jan Troell's debut film is a pleasure to view. It's realistic, yet artful, and shot in tasteful black and white. He takes great care with poetry of nature, along with picturesque composition.

    Alas, when it comes to original narrative, Mr. Troell doesn't demonstrate that's his forte. The film for me felt largely redundant, as though almost half could be deleted for a stronger cumulative statement.

    Later on in his career, "The Immigrants" and "The New Land" revealed the film maker's talent best realized. In contrast, "Here's Your Life" merely shows technical promise in its photographic imagery. What's needed is a skilled writer.

    It's easy to understand the work being selected by Sweden as its entry in the Academy Award foreign language category--and the Academy's rejecting it's qualification.

    Today it's a "forgotten film" shown occasionally on the TCM network.
    5ozjeppe

    Competent movie-making, but overly episodic - with at least 1 HOUR of redundant footage...

    Long, lumbering tale of teenage Olof and his coming-of-age journey through Sweden in the 1910s. This award-winning epic tells both a rite-of-passage story, and a fairly interesting depiction of rural Sweden and the country's early proletarian and workers' movement.

    Great production values and cinematography underline competent movie-making for sure... but we never get to know the protagonist enough to really care in the end, because of its overly episodic narrative. What's more, it contains at least one HOUR of footage and scenes that neither move, entertain or push the story forward... Poetic? No, in my book, that's being guilty of painfully redundant screen time! It's on many a list of best-ever Swedish movies. To me, it's not bad (as stated), but I probably wouldn't even rank it on my Swedish top-50...

    5 out of 10 from Ozjeppe
    10Kensingtonian

    A forgotten masterpiece

    A magnificent but almost forgotten movie, even in Sweden, although it was awarded Best Direction in the Swedish Oscars, Filmbaggen, in 1967, collected two awards at the Berlin Film Festival 1967, and took the two top awards in the Chicago Film Festival 1967. It seems impossible to get hold of on VHS or DVD, even in Sweden (although it was released on video in Sweden in 1997). However, it is shown in Swedish art-house cinemas ever so often. The cinematography is beautiful (Jan Troell always does his on cinematography, he started working as cinematographer for Bo Widerberg), and the story about the young man in northern Sweden during World War I is both moving and funny. Full of cameos of some of the biggest stars in Swedish cinema, like Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Allan Edvall and Per Oscarsson.

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    • Trivia
      This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #766.
    • Connections
      Featured in Minns Ni? (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Jag gick mig åt körka
      Lyrics and music composed by Allan Edwall

      Sung by Allan Edwall

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    • Release date
      • December 1, 1967 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Sweden
    • Languages
      • Swedish
      • German
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Here Is Your Life
    • Filming locations
      • Boden, Norrbottens län, Sweden
    • Production company
      • Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 49 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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