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10/03/1967 Drama 2h 2m
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Overview

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

  1. Vilgot Sjöman

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Lena Nyman

    Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman / Lena

  2. Vilgot Sjöman

    Vilgot Sjöman

  3. Börje Ahlstedt

    Börje, Lena's boyfriend

  4. Peter Lindgren

    Lena's Father

  5. Chris Wahlström

    Rune's Woman

  6. Magnus Nilsson

    Magnus, Lena's school friend

  7. Ulla Lyttkens

    Ulla, Lena's friend

  8. Marie Göranzon

    Marie, Börje's mistress

  9. Sven Wollter

    Captain (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-24
This film was released in the year I was born, so now almost sixty years later it’s hardly surprising that it has lost much of it’s punch. It is, however, still an entertaining enterprise that marries the factual and the fictional in a fashion that isn’t always that easy to distinguish. With a solid effort underpinning it all from Lena Nyman this presents us with an interesting exposé on socialist idealism and sexual libertarianism. “Lena” is the sort of have your cake and eat it sort of gal (yes, I did write “cake”). She sees no point in just talking about freedoms, she wants t...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Swedish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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