Bogland The Mill & the Cross
Poet of the Elephant House
The Autumn Man Your Mind is Bigger Than all Scrap
La favola del pennello/ The Tree Lover in the land of the cranes/ Historia
I think of myself - and the left Freedom Calf Jasper Hiding behind the camera The Zone
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| Private-Eye Kant | |||
| Sweden, 1983, 13x18 min, 16 mm, colour, 1:1.37 | |||
| Director: Håkan Alexandersson | |||
| "I worked as a private-eye...in a city that was so rotten I feel sick when I take it's name in my mouth..." Private-eye Kant starts out as a big city saga, dark and tough, about evil and good, imprisonment and freedom. It ends as a comedy about traumas, hysteria and guilt ridden feelings. |
| Cast | Privatdetektiven Kant: Krister Broberg. Övriga roller: Ingvar Andersson, Julia Hede, Ted Åström, Mats G. Bengtsson, Freddy Olsson, Inez Svensson, Anders Linder. | ||
| Director | Håkan Alexandersson | ||
| Screenplay | Håkan Alexandersson, Carl Johan De Geer | ||
| Director of photography/ production design | Carl Johan De Geer | ||
| Costume/ make up | Kristina Elander | ||
| Sound | Ulf Darin | ||
| Editor | Thomas Täng | ||
| Music | Krister Broberg | ||
| Produced by the Meyer Studios for SVT, Sveriges Television AB. Shot 1982. Shown in TV during the winter of 1983. | |||
"I worked as a private-eye...in a city that was so rotten I feel sick when I take it's name in my mouth..." Private-eye Kant starts out as a big city saga, dark and tough, about evil and good, imprisonment and freedom. It ends as a comedy about traumas, hysteria and guilt ridden feelings. In the eighth episode the detective discovers something of which he had always suspected to exsist: psychiatry. The behaviour of adults can be explained by long forgotten childhood experiences! The memories come back whilst on the couch. Kant resembles Sigmund Freud more and more, leaving the role as a tough-as-bolts dick that never takes his hat off. The revolver is not shot off anymore, save for the odd blank explosions, to serve purpose as a psychological weapon. "Private-eye Kant" is a further development on the tragi-comic descriptions of the human state-of-mind found in "The Cake" and "Doctor Krall". The humour is quite special: jokeless humour, with a few distasteful punches below the belt. "Kant" is a confluence of the european, cultural inheritence, with plenty of gun-powder, sausage and pschoanalysis. Or, with Kant's own words taken from the theme song: | |||
| Swedish Television www.svt.se |
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