My Life as a Dog

My Life as a Dog Swedish Mitt liv som hund is a 1985 Swedish drama film directed by Lasse Hallstrm. It is based on the second novel of a semiautobiographical trilogy by Reidar Jnsson. It tells the story of Ingemar, a young boy sent to live with relatives. The cast includes Anton Glanzelius, Melinda Kinnaman and Tomas von Brmssen.

In the town he encounters a variety of characters. Saga Kinnaman, an assertive tomboy his own age, likes him, and shows it by beating him up in a boxing match. Among the more eccentric residents is Fransson Magnus Rask, a man who continually fixes the roof of his house, and Mr. Arvidsson Didrik Gustavsson, an old man living downstairs who gets Ingemar to read to him from a lingerie catalog.Later, Ingemar is reunited with his family, but his mother soon takes a turn for the worse and is hospitalized. He and his brother go to stay with their uncle Sandberg Leif Ericson in the city, but his wife thinks the boy is mentally disturbed. After his mother passes away, he is sent back to Smland. ........

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