EVERLASTING MOMENTS

Year: 2008
USA: IFC FIlms
UK: Icon Film Distribution
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Tero Kaukoma, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall
Director: Jan Troell
Countries: Denmark / Finland / Norway / Sweden / Germany
Language: Swedish (English subtitles)
USA: 131 mins
UK: 110 mins
USA Rated: PG
UK Certificate: 15 contains one use of very strong language
USA Release Date: 6 March 2009 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 22 May 2009 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

Based on a true story, in Sweden in the early 1900s in a time of social change and unrest, of war and poverty, Maria (Maria Heiskanen), a young working class woman, wins a camera in a lottery and decides to keep it, a decision which alters her whole life.

The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her alcoholic womaniser of a husband, Sigfrid (Mikael Persbrandt), as it brings the charming photographer Sebastian Petersson (Jesper Christensen) "Piff Paff Puff" into her life.

EVERLASTING MOMENTS is a chronicle about individuals with an impressive capacity to survive and, by their infinite gift for invention and solving problems, to be able - free of bitterness - to enjoy the things of life.