Eyvind Johnson
Writing
Known For
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Here Is Your Life
It's the mid-1930s, and brakeman Kvist has had enough of working on the train, jumped off, and started to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Finland, hoping to find new work and adventures. Based on the novella by the famous Swedish author Eyvind Johnson.
Interlude in the Marshland
Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
4 x 4
A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.
Vinterdag 1914
A triangle drama - directly from hell. The door to hell closes. A hell that the purgatory or physical torture. An inferno where the guests themselves must serve as each other's executioner.
Closed Doors
An introductory poem read by Erik Asklund, and a series of images from the Old Town of Stockholm, which tells a story of a young woman and an unemployed husband.