Everlasting Moments

Everlasting Moments

(Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick), Jan Troell / S - DK - N - FIN - D, 2008
Swedish version / English and Czech subtitles, 130 min

In Sweden in the early 1900s, a time of social change and unrest, of war and poverty, a young working class woman, named Maria, wins a camera in a lottery, and decides to keep it. It is a decision which changes her entire life. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings an unknown charming prhotographer into her life. The film is based on a true story.