Amorosa
- Director: Mai Zetterling
- Writer: Mai Zetterling
- Producer: Bengt Forslund
CGiii Comment
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940) during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel (1880-1941). 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.
Trailer...
AMOROSA (Mai Zetterling, 1986) from Spectacle Theater on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Stina Ekblad as Agnes von Krusenstjerna;
Erland Josephson as David Sprengel;
Bissa Abelli;
Borje Ahlstedt as Joachin Rosenhjelm;
Carlo Barsotti;
Anita Bjork as Arvida;
Anna Karin Bomquist;
Lilian Brage;
Gunnel Brostrom as Evelina Hamilton;
Federico Caprara; Lamberto Caprara;
Efisio Coletti;
Catherine de Seynes as Eva von Krusenstjerna;
Nils Eklund as Salomon;
Lauritz Falk as Hugo Hamilton