Everlasting Moments

Everlasting Moments Swedish Maria Larssons eviga gonblick is a 2008 Swedish drama film directed by Jan Troell, starring Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt and Jesper Christensen. It is based on the true story of Maria Larsson, a Swedish working class woman in the early 20th century, who wins a camera in a lottery and goes on to become a photographer. It has been compared to Troells previous films Heres Your Life and As White as in Snow, which are both set around the same period.

With financing fromorganisations from five different countries Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Germany the film was Troells largest project since The Emigrants in the early 1970s. Agneta UlfsterTroell, Jan Troells wife, started doing research and interviews in 1986 with Maja Larsson, Maria Larssons daughter, who was a cousin to UlfsterTroells father. During her research she found Marias pictures, which were used as inspiration for the pictures seen in the film. The material wasnt organized, but when a person at the Swedish Film Institute heard about the story and how Jan Troell was interested in turning it into a film, an early process for a manuscript was started.The first official meeting took place in early 2004. Troell said that the casting choice of Maria Heiskanen and Jesper Christensen, both of whom had starred in Troell films previously, had always been obvious. Two years before filming started, Troell met Mikael Persbrandt at a film festival in Sweden and started to imagine him in the role of Sigfrid. Persbrandt then contacted Troell himself and persuaded him into giving him the role. A major difference between the film and the actual story is that the real Maria Larsson lived in Gothenburg, while the film takes place in Malm, where Jan Troell himself comes from. ........

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