Jerusalem is the title of a Swedish

Swedish

Swedish may refer to:*Swedish cuisine*Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe *Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland...

 international feature-film from 1996, based upon two novels, Jerusalem I + II (1901) by Swedish autor and Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ....

. The film (also a TV-series in collaboration with SVT) was directed and written by Bille August

Bille August

Bille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...

 and was a Scandinavian

Scandinavian

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 collaboration, headed by Svensk Filmindustri.

The novels and the film was inspired by real events from the end of the 19'th century, a time when many people left their European

European

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 countries and emigrated to other parts of the world, looking for a better life (as shown also in Swedish films The Emigrants and The New Land

The New Land

Nybyggarna is a 1972 Swedish film written by Bengt Forslund and directed by Jan Troell. It stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Eddie Axberg....

by Jan Troell, 1971). The story builds upon the real emigration of a number of families from the Northern part of Sweden, struggeling families of a strong Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 faith that the world may be coming to an end, why they decide to move together to Jerusalem. After a long journey, they settle down in the outskirts of Jerusalem to take up farming and build a new future, waiting for the Judgement Day, followed by claimed visions etc. But living in that new region turned out not being so easy, and after lots of problems, the loss of family members etc, some of the group decide to return back to Sweden, while others stay.

The film cast include Ulf Friberg

Ulf Friberg

Ulf Friberg is a Swedish actor, screenwriter, theatre and film director.Friberg studied in Malmö 1986-89. After that he was engaged at Stockholm City Theatre. He has also been engaged at the Orion Theatre in Stockholm and Folkteatern in Gothenburg...

, Sven-Bertil Taube

Sven-Bertil Taube

Sven-Bertil G. E. Taube is a Swedish singer and actor. Born in Stockholm, he is the son of songwriter Evert Taube and sculptor Astri Bergman Taube.-Biography:...

, Maria Bonnevie

Maria Bonnevie

Anna Maria Cecilia Bonnevie is a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She was born in Västerås, Sweden, but she grew up in Oslo, Norway. Her parents, both actors, are the Norwegian actress Jannik Bonnevie and Swedish actor Per Waldvik...

, Pernilla August

Pernilla August

Pernilla August is a Swedish actress, director and script-writer. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a long time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions...

, Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more...

, Reine Brynolfsson

Reine Brynolfsson

Reine Claes-Göran Brynolfsson is a Swedish actor.-Selected filmography:*The Serpent's Way *In the Shadow of the Raven *The White Viking *Svart Lucia *House of Angels...

, Lena Endre

Lena Endre

Lena Endre is a Swedish actress. She was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County, and grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland and Trollbäcken, Tyresö. She had her breakthrough in the Swedish TV-series Varuhuset and Lorry in the 1980s. Since then she has acted in a number of TV-series and movies, both in...

, Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck...

, Michael Nyqvist

Michael Nyqvist

Rolf Åke Michael Nyqvist is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. He is recently most recognized for his role in the internationally acclaimed Millennium series as...

, Mona Malm

Mona Malm

Mona Malm is a Swedish actress. She began her career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater in 1957.-Selected filmography:* Smiles of a Summer Night * The Seventh Seal...

, Sven Wollter

Sven Wollter

Sven Wollter is a Swedish actor. He was born and grew up in Gothenburg.Sven Wollter is an actor in Sweden and has starred in many films such as, The Man on the Roof, The Man from Majorca, Änglagård and Jerusalem, based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf...

, Hans Alfredson

Hans Alfredson

Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson...

, Viveka Seldahl

Viveka Seldahl

Viveka Kristina Seldahl, born on March 15, 1944, in Överammer, Jämtland, died on November 3, 2001, in Stockholm, was a Swedish actress.She lived with Swedish actor Sven Wollter from 1971 to her death in 2001....

 and Johan Rabaeus

Johan Rabaeus

Carl Magnus Olof Johan Rabaeus is a Swedish actor.Rabaeus, who was born in Stockholm but grew up in Paris and Geneve, generally portrays very unpleasant characters, one of them being the stepfather to Erik Ponti in the film Evil.-Selected filmography:*1988: S.O.S...

.

Cast

• Ulf Friberg - Ingmar
• Maria Bonnevie - Gertrud
• Pernilla August - Karin
• Reine Brynolfsson - Tim
• Lena Endre - Barbro
• Jan Mybrand - Gabriel
• Sven-Bertil Taube - Helgum
• Björn Granath - Storm
• Viveka Seldahl - Stina
• Mona Malm - Eva Gunnarsdotter
• Hans Alfredson - Mats Hök
• Max von Sydow - Vicar
• Olympia Dukakis - Mrs. Gordon
• Annika Borg - Gunhild
• Johan Rabaeus - Eljas
• Sven Wollter - Stor-Ingmar
• Mats Dahlbäck - Hans Berger
• Anders Nyström - Sven Persson
• Claes Esphagen - Forrester
• Fredrik Ohlsson - Lawyer
• John Gunnarson - Jesus
• Torsten Sjöholm - Gunnar Höök
• Michael Nyqvist - Carpenter 1
• Lasse Almebäck - Carpenter 2
• André Bejnö - Ingmar as child
• Stina Wargert - Gertrud as child
• Sydnee Blake - American woman
• Mel Cobb - American man
• Nils Eklund - Innkeeper
• Lars Engström - Doctor
• Rolf Jenner - Big man 1
• Christer Flodin - Big man 2
• Viktor Friberg - Saw worker
• Douglas Johansson - Lars Tipers
• Katherine Kjellgren - American girl
• Jan Sjödin - Gabriel's father
• Eva Stellby - Gabriel's mother
• Stina von Sydow - Servant girl
• Cilla Thorell - Russian girl
• Amanda Steen - Greta
• Tindra Laurén - Greta as a little girl
• Galina Pavlovna Soboleva - Russian woman
• Valeri Dmitrievitj-Lisenkov - Russian man 1
• Pavel Oetrovitj-Ostroukhouv - Russian man 2

Awards

Lena Endre won the Swedish Guldbagge Award

Guldbagge Award

The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.-Etymology:Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer. The name of the award could also be interpreted as a play on the Swedish word skalbagge,...

as Best supporting actress, and the film was nominated in several other categories.