Land of Dreams

The documentary is an essay film about Sweden. The director starts from his own life. His daughter Johanna is born in 1983. That birth opens the film. Troell tells of his own childhood. He grew up in the thirties and forties. The Sweden of those years was another place. The film looks at the Sweden of today. According to it reason and order have taken the front. Creativity has been pushed behind. The documentary speaks with a great many people. There are politicians, farmers and schoolchildren. Foresters and animal keepers talk as well. The psychologist Rollo May is the main voice of the film. Home movies and staged passages come in between. The film openly argues its own view. Ingvar Carlsson and Tage Erlander appear in the one hundred eighty five minute documentary. It is a Swedish production Jan Troell finished in 1988.