1981
Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers To Follow 2018 / Nittonhundraåttioett / Sweden 2017
Gay saunas have their specific rules, which might be summed up as “what happens in the sauna, stays in the sauna”. And that’s what married couple Ivar and Pål are hoping as they set off with the aim of adding some zest to the partner stereotype. A film about love and about the kind of excesses one should only treat oneself to once in a while.
Synopsis
Sweden, 1981. Married couple Ivar and Pål set out for a gay sauna hoping to try out something new and add some zest to the partner stereotype. They head for an establishment that operates by the motto: “What happens in the sauna, stays in the sauna”. They both hope they’ll leave the place just as besotted with each other as they were when they arrived. 1981 is a film which blends explicit eroticism with fragile love in a tale of everyday life and the kind of excesses one should only treat oneself to once in a while.
Anna Kořínek
About the film
13 min / Color, DCP
Director Dawid Ullgren
/ Screenplay Anton Nyberg
/ Dir. of Photography Josua Enblom
/ Editor Robert Krantz
/ Production New Stories
/ Cast Bengt Braskered, Razmus Nyström, Petr Öhagen
/ Contact Swedish Film Institute
About the director
Dawid Ullgren. Filmography: Mr. Sugar Daddy (2016), Freak (2017), Miss Inga Issues (2018), 1981 (Nittonhundraåttioett, 2018)
Contacts
Swedish Film Institute
Box 27126, S-102 52, Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 866 511 00
Fax: +46 866 118 20
E-mail: uof@sfi.se
Guests
Dawid Ullgren
Film Director
