Giliap

Giliap is a 1975 Swedish drama film directed by Roy Andersson, starring Thommy Berggren as a man who takes a job as a waiter at a rundown hotel. It was a financial and critical failure, and it led to Anderssons not making another feature film foryears. Andersson has admitted that the film contains flaws, and he claims that the main reason for them was that he was not completely in control of the production, and therefore he had to compromise in several scenes. He has also suggested that the audience was not ready for the film, expecting it to be more similar to his previous film A Swedish Love Story I think they didnt understand what I was doing. Later, when Kubrick came out with Barry Lyndon, people accepted that its the same mood. But these things take time. The film is notable for its stylised settings, resembling what would later be seen in a more refined form in Anderssons Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living.

The man befriends two coworkers the talkative Gustav The Count Svensson and the beautiful waitress Anna. Anna says that she is only there working temporarily, just like the man himself, and that she will soon move on to work at a seaside hotel.After work one day Anna takes the man to her borrowed apartment and tries to persuade him to go away with her somewhere. She tries to hug him but he is reluctant and returns to his room. There The Count visits him and reveals a plan he has that would bring them both lots of money. But in order to realize it they will first have to free a friend of The Count who happens to be in jail. The Count gives the man the code name Giliap to use during the operation. ........

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