The Apple War

The Apple War Swedish ppelkriget is a 1971 Swedish comedydrama film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gsta Ekman, Hans Alfredsson, Tage Danielsson, Monica Zetterlund and Max von Sydow. The political theme of the film is the battle between nature on the one hand and commercialisation and industrialisation on the other set to exploit and ultimately destroy land and natural resources. The film can also be seen as an early criticism of globalisation as it depicts foreign, and large scale, capitalist investors and entrepreneurs as exploiters working side by side with domestic, small scale, capitalists.

A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called Deutschneyland a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland. Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.The film won the Swedish Film Institutes Guldbagge Award Golden Beetle award in 1972 in three categories ........

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