Amorosa (1986)

5.6/10 117 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Stina Ekblad

Agnes von Krusenstjerna

Erland Josephson

David Sprengel

Philip Zandén

Adolf von Krusenstjerna

Lena T. Hansson

Ava de Geer

Peter Schildt

Gerhard Odencrantz

Catherine de Seynes

Eva von Krusenstjerna

Olof Thunberg

Ernst von Krusenstjerna

Börje Ahlstedt

Joachin Rosenhjelm

Inga Gill

Miss Tollen

Gösta Krantz

Felix

Anita Björk

Arvida

Heinz Hopf

Doctor Iller

Anja Landgré

Magnhild

Mimi Pollak

Miss Rosenhjelm

Gunnel Broström

Evelina Hamilton

Lauritz Falk

Hugo Hamilton

Johan Rabaeus

Jan Guy Hamilton

Rico Rönnbäck

Edward von Krusenstjerna

Margreth Weivers

Beda

Henrik Schildt

Frey Odencrantz

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