Blodets röst
Summary
A bourgeois hearth, once lacquered in smug certainties, fractures when a graying patriarch—tethered to neither faith nor future—abandons the muted rectitude of middle-age for a vertiginous waltz with ruin. Liquor becomes sacrament, debts bloom like nightshade, and every reckless caress he trades with anonymity accelerates the crumbling of the ancestral portrait. Wife and progeny, erstwhile background drapery, now stand spectral, their mute pleas scoring the air like violin bows frayed by panic. In the end the man’s own shadow bars the doorway: there is no exit, only the echo of domestic china shattering against a silence that refuses to absolve.
Synopsis
A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. His self-destructive habits not only creates havoc in his home life, it leads to other problems.
Director
Greta Almroth, Richard Lund, Victor Sjöström, Ragna Wettergreen
Peter Lykke-Seest, Victor Sjöström
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