All Things Fair: Love Lessons (1995 - Swedish with English subtitles)

All Things Fair: Love Lessons (1995 - Swedish with English subtitles)
Director: Bo Widerberg
Writer: Bo Widerberg (screenplay)
Release Date: 8 March 1996 (USA) more
Genre: Drama - Romance - War
Country: Sweden - Denmark
Runtime: 130 min



* Cast:

Johan Widerberg ... Stig
Marika Lagercrantz ... Viola
Tomas von Brömssen ... Kjell
Karin Huldt ... Lisbet
Nina Gunke ... Stig's Mother
Björn Kjellman ... Sigge
Kenneth Milldoff ... Stig's Father
Frida Lindholm ... Olga
Sigge Cederlund ... Biografmaskinisten
George Bisset
Gösta Ekstrand
Hilda Suovanen
Per Olov Börjeson
Jörgen Svensson
Monica Stenbeck ... Gymnastiklärarinnan


* Awards:

- Academy Awards, USA:

*1996 Nominated for Oscar of Best Foreign Language Film


- Berlin International Film Festival:

*1996 Blue Angel Award: Bo Widerberg
Silver Berlin Bear: Special Jury Prize
& Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear



- Guldbagge Awards:

*1996 Guldbagge: Best Direction and Best Film


- Rouen Nordic Film Festival:

*1996 Award for Best Actor


* Plot:

Malmoe, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher.


He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a god-sent relief from her drunk and miserable husband.


They start a passionate and forbidden relationship - but it has consequences they never could have expected.