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has striven to express the viewpoint of the Swedish farm-workers, and his films of the countryside place more emphasis on the problems of everyday life than on the beauties of nature. Nar Angarna Blommar (When the Meadows Bloom) (1946), the story of a strike among farm-workers and their determination to improve their conditions, was typical of a series of films which brought a sympathetic eye to bear on the realities of life on the land. A later film. Lars Hard (1948), based on a novel of Jan Fridegard, mingled humour with its documentary frankness, while into Smeder pa Luff en (1948), set in the mining district of Malmfors, he introduced an engaging note of fantasy. The most solid expression of Faustman's social and political consciousness was given in Frdmmande Hamn (Foreign Harbour) (1948), set in the harbour of Gydnia at the time of the Spanish Civil War. Faustman gave a vigorous realism to his account of the problem facing the captain of a Swedish ship, when his crew mutiny on discovering that the cargo consists of German contraband for Spain, and the exciting events in the harbour town had as their background the larger ideological conflict. Faustman's skill as a director when moved by issues of this nature was shown in the dramatic scene of the funeral of an unknown seaman, victim of the international arms traffic. While he was discovering his style Faustman made several experiments, among them Brott och Straff (1945), a version of Dostoievsky's 'Crime and Punishment' in which he played Raskolnikov. A painstaking attempt at an ambitious theme the film achieved only a partial success, because Faustman in direction and acting missed the note of abnormality essential to the Dostoievsky characterization. Gunn Wallgren's performance as Sonia, an innocent wondering at the evil of the world, strengthened the film's appeal to the emotions and there was an effective performance by Sigurd Wallen as Zametov.
Hasse Ekman, son of the actor Gosta Ekman, is Sweden's most prolific director, with an output of over twenty films by 195 1. He has demonstrated his versatility by writing as well as directing most of them and by invariably playing the leading part. It has been natural for a man with his quick fertility to attempt many different types of film and his record ranges from slapstick through witty comedy to high drama. His earlier films included Ombyte av Tag (Unexpected Meeting) (1943), a sensitively handled story of young lovers against a railway station background, and Vandring med Mdnen (Wandering with the Moon) (1945), a draught of the romantic mysticism distilled by the Swedish summer. Later the poetic strain in his films became less strong and he made several thrillers of which the most successful was Medan Porten var Stdngd (While the Street Door was Closed) (1946). His facility with dialogue and his skill in handling actors have given many of his films a theatrical flavour.
Ake Ohberg is another young director of the 'forties whose style has varied considerably. His early films, Snostormen (1943) and Elvira Madigan (1943), a circus story with a period setting, had a strong romantic flavour. Later a note of social criticism appeared and became the distinguishing characteristic of his
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