Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A journey through Swedish queer film history. | dG1fd21fYm5DSFI5YWc

Transcript

00:00 [MUSIC]

00:04 The Vigournet was the first film in the world to concentrate on a love story between men.

00:09 [MUSIC]

00:11 You know, there was a queer presence in those films that one doesn't necessarily find in other national cinemas.

00:20 Greta Garbo was a lesbian, yes, I'm saying Greta Garbo was a lesbian.

00:23 It becomes so obvious that they were very, very in love.

00:27 [MUSIC]

00:29 It's like a complaint, let's say, that someone is gay.

00:33 There's always been a lot of cross-dressing in Swedish films.

00:37 Over a hundred films feature cross-dressing of some kind.

00:40 [MUSIC]

00:43 It's always a question of having a feeling for life, first of all.

00:47 I wish that Ingmar came from heaven and could answer this.

00:53 [MUSIC]

00:55 What is it, what is this all about?

00:58 You could almost call it a kind of lesbian Citizen Kane.

01:02 [MUSIC]

01:09 It looks real.

01:10 Now it's done, you guys.

01:12 It was really around 2012 that you have a new explosion of films,

01:16 and so you get a variety of stories, more different kinds of stories.

01:20 [MUSIC]

01:23 [FOREIGN]

01:33 (rock music)