491 (film)

491 is a 1964 Swedish black-and-white drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman, based on a novel by Lars Görling. The story is about a group of youth criminals who are chosen to participate in a social experiment, where they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers. The tagline is: It is written that 490 times you can sin and be forgiven. This motion picture is about the 491st.

491
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVilgot Sjöman
Produced byLars-Owe Carlberg
Written byLars Görling (also novel)
Vilgot Sjöman
StarringLars Lind
Music byGeorg Riedel
CinematographyGunnar Fischer
Edited byLennart Wallén
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri
Release date
  • 16 March 1964 (1964-03-16)
Running time
101 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

This controversial film, which featured a male homosexual rape scene, was first banned in Sweden and Malaysia, but released after reediting, a censored version was later released in Malaysia. Amongst other things, a scene in which a woman is raped by a dog was cut.[1] The film was also banned in Norway until 1971. The reactions from especially Conservative circles in Sweden were of disgust and outrage, and the film was one of the reasons why the Christian Democratic Party was founded in 1964.

Cast
  • Lars Lind as Krister
  • Leif Nymark as Nisse
  • Stig Törnblom as Egon
  • Lars Hansson as Pyret
  • Sven Algotsson as Jingis
  • Torleif Cederstrand as Butcher
  • Bo Andersson as Fisken
  • Lena Nyman as Steva
  • Frank Sundström as Inspector
  • Åke Grönberg as Reverend Mild
  • Mona Andersson as Kajsa
  • Jan Blomberg as Tester
  • Siegfried Wald as German Sailor
  • Willem Fricke / Wilhelm Fricke as German Sailor
  • Erik Hell as Policeman
  • Leif Liljeroth as Policeman
gollark: How would you do it THAT MANY times and not notice?
gollark: Many things.
gollark: But then SC would stop being a glorious anarchocapitalist paradise.
gollark: Have you not been to our surveillance outposts before?
gollark: GTech™ has all information.

References
  1. Larsson, Mariah; Bjorklund, Elisabet (28 June 2016). Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution: Critical Essays. McFarland. p. 116. ISBN 9781476665443.


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