Thommy Berggren

A young factory worker in the 1930s devotes himself to his writing in the hopes of escaping his impoverished circumstances and family difficulties.

Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this art-house sensation, a sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy starring Pia Degermark and Tommy Berggren. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus performer and a married lieutenant forsake everything to be together—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.

A teen factory worker dates two men: a pop singer and a wealthy student. When she becomes pregnant, however, she chooses an independent path.

At the center of the jet-setting story is troubled playboy Dax (Bekim Fehmiu of Black Sunday). Raised far from his South American homeland of Corteguay amid the high society and political intrigue of Italy, Dax uses romance as a stepping stone to success... and all the while schemes to bring vengeance on those who once wronged him and his family.