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Amorosa

5.2 117 mins Drama   1986
Sandrews   SVT Drama   Svenska Filminstitutet  
Director(s): Mai Zetterling

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Casts of Amorosa

Stina Ekblad

as Agnes von Krusenstjerna

Erland Josephson

as David Sprengel

Philip Zandén

as Adolf von Krusenstjerna

Lena T. Hansson

as Ava de Geer

Peter Schildt

as Gerhard Odencrantz

Catherine de Seynes

as Eva von Krusenstjerna

Olof Thunberg

as Ernst von Krusenstjerna

Börje Ahlstedt

as Joachin Rosenhjelm

Inga Gill

as Miss Tollen

Gösta Krantz

as Felix

Anita Björk

as Arvida

Heinz Hopf

as Doctor Iller

Anja Landgré

as Magnhild

Mimi Pollak

as Miss Rosenhjelm

Gunnel Broström

as Evelina Hamilton

Lauritz Falk

as Hugo Hamilton

Johan Rabaeus

as Jan Guy Hamilton

Rico Rönnbäck

as Edward von Krusenstjerna

Henrik Schildt

as Frey Odencrantz

Nils Eklund

as Salomon

Allan Svensson

as Constable

Helene Friberg

as Viveka Hamilton

Karin Forslind

as Eva Hamilton

Inga Landgré

as Nurse Clara

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