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| The Missionaries | |||
| Sweden, 1988, 7 min, 35 mm, colour, 1:1.66 | |||
| Director: Håkan Alexandersson | |||
| In 1968, Harry Schein, president of the old Film Institute, recieved a proposal for a spy-film handed in by Alexandersson/De Geer. The film was to be titled "Cry, baby, cry". "If all these other idiots get to make pictures, then why not you two?" |
| Cast | Jan Bergqvist, Anders Linder, Jan Lööf, Meta Velander | ||
| Director | Håkan Alexandersson | ||
| Screenplay | Håkan Alexandersson, Carl Johan De Geer | ||
| Producer | Harry Schein/Swedish Film Institute | ||
| Director of photography | Bo Blomberg | ||
| Production design | Carl Johan De Geer | ||
| Production manager | Staffan Hedqvist | ||
| Sound | Owe Svensson | ||
In 1968, Harry Schein, president of the old Film Institute, recieved a proposal for a spy-film handed in by Alexandersson/De Geer. The film was to be titled "Cry, baby, cry". "If all these other idiots get to make pictures, then why not you two?" said Schein who subsequently handed out 40.000 crowns for a pilotfilm which was to be produced in association with the then exsisting filmschool, located at Europafilm's facilities in Sundbyberg. The school offered a cinemaphotographer, make-up person and a sound technician. Jan Lööf made a major contribution to his character in "The Missionaries" by constructing a flanell board which showed God, the Holy Ghost and Jesus Christ's mutilated body. The main attraction of this film probably lies within how Lööf demonstrates his invention. The plot was as follows: two left-wing activists sit in a kitchen discussing Nato´s secret plans. Then, a man and a woman who pose as Jehovas witnesses storm the kitchen and attack the two activists. "The Missionaries" is an excersise-film lacking both a begining and an end. It consists mainly of a fight, inwhich great measures are taken to mutilate Lööf's ear with a fork. De Geer wrote an insurrection against Schein, and with the turbulence that arose, the left-wingers fell out with Film Institute boss, and he subsequently cut off all future associations with Alexandersson/De Geer, leaving the planned spy-film out in the cold. | |||