Adalen 31 (1969)

It is a performances centric movie

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The first must-see film of the year.

This movie is loosely based on historic events. These events of 1931 is still romanticized in lore with Swedish left wing groups. This film is aimed at the new wave of communists in the 1960's. The movie was a smash hit with it's target audience. Some claim this to be almost a documentary, using this movie as a revisionist falsification of history. The story told is all out favored by the communist side, with a lot of exaggeration on events and violence. With the communist being the good side fighting and suffering for justice. While the state and the "capitlists" are mostly a one dimensional evil force. The story does not bother to mention that the "evil force" where in reality trying to keep democracy in Sweden and not to become another Sub-Soviet dictatorship. The movie in itself is not that good and the sound is awful, at times I can't make out what is being said.

Dramatized story about strikers, black-foots, saw-mill-owners and the military in a small Swedish town in 1931. The military was sent in to stop the strikers that were marching towards one of the mills. Due to inexperience and nervousness in the commanding officer, the order to fire was given and five people were killed. From then on Swedish military has been forbidden to act against civilians, until this summer, when a new law was passed in Swedish parliament. This law permits the police to ask the military for help in terror-like situations, with commanding chief of police as supreme commander. The film is a fairly true revue of what happened that day in 1931.

This is the most overrated swedish film I can think of. On a scale from 1 to 5 I give it 1. Why? Well, let's begin with that the sound is so bad that you sometimes can't hear what the actors say. Alot of the scenes are(or must be, I don't know and I don't care)improvised. The actors keep repeating their lines over and over and over again. You can almost see how frustrating this is for the actors in some scenes.Also the story, besides the story about the shooting, is absurd. The boy that dies at the end, the tragic moment in the movie, is some kind of a rapist with hypnotic skills, so you don't care so much. The only music in this "real" movie comes from a bunch of retarded boys with spoons and buckets for instruments. At the end of the movie, close to the klimax, it's blowhorns and drums from the marching band.If Ådalen was this dull even that day, that must have been the most exiting day of all times, I will never put my foot there.That this movie gets 7.8 grade is not so strange after all. No sane man would ever even think of renting this movie. This is a movie for the insane!

Now this is something you don't see every day! Bo Widerbergs style makes this movie almost documentary in a way. That suits this movie since it's based on a true event.The story is about a small town where the workers go out on strike. The conflict between workers and the factory owners and even between the workers themselves. Seems very simple but oh so good! Very good characters and dialogue! See it if you have the chance!9/10 Movie-Man