Here Is Your Life (1966)

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Original title	Här har du ditt liv
Swedish release title	Här har du ditt liv
International title	Here Is Your Life
Distribution title	Hier hast du dein Leben (Västtyskland) El fuego de la vida (Spanien)
Title for Swedish Video release	Här har du ditt liv

Director	Jan Troell
Screenplay	Bengt Forslund Jan Troell
Production Manager	Bengt Forslund
Director of Photography	Jan Troell
Music	Erik Nordgren Alvar Karlsson (as Jack Gill) Walter Kejving (as Andrew Walter)
Art Director	Rolf Boman
Film Editor	Jan Troell
Production Mixer	Leif Hansen
Script Supervisor	Ingrid Wieselgren
Unit Manager	Karl-Erik Svensson
First Assistant Cameraman	Rolf Holmqvist
Gaffer	Sture Arelind
Key Grip	Ragnar Waaranperä
Musical Arrangement	Walter Kejving (as Andrew Walter)
Propman	Karl Erik Tonemar
Costume Designer	Knut Nylén
Make-up Supervisor	Jan Garmstedt Kjell Gustavsson
Boom Operator	Bo Högberg
Sound Effects	Evald Andersson
Re-recording Mixer	Olle Jakobsson

Eddie Axberg	Olof Persson
Gudrun Brost	fostermodern
Ulla Akselson	modern
Bo Wahlström	storebror
Rick Axberg	lillebror
Holger Löwenadler	Kristiansson, rallare
Göran Lindberg	Olsson, flottare
Tage Sjögren	Lund, flottare
Tage Jonsson	Linus, flottare
Allan Edwall	August, flottare
Anna Maria Blind	kvinnan i sagan
Birger Lensander	tegelbruksdisponenten
Max von Sydow	Smålands-Pelle, gammal rallare
Ulf Palme	Larsson, sågverksarbetare
Jan Erik Lindqvist	Johansson, sågverksarbetare
Börje Nyberg	sågverksdisponenten
Gunnar Björnstrand	Lundgren, biografdirektör
Signe Stade	Maria
Stig Törnblom	Fredrik, Olofs kamrat
Erik "Västerås-Lasse" Larsson	Västerås-Lasse, biografbesökare
Åke Fridell	Nicke Larsson, ambulerande filmförevisare
Ulla Sjöblom	Olivia, tivoliarbeterska
Friedrich Ochsner	smeden
Catti Edfeldt (as Catharina Edfeldt)	Maja, hans dotter
Ulla Blomstrand	Efrisina
Bengt Ekerot	Byberg, verkstadsförman på SJ
Per Oscarsson	Niklas, arbetare på SJs lokverkstad
Bertil Linné	Gustafsson, fackföreningsmedlem
Midgård Björklund	fackföreningsordföranden
Lennart Klefbom	fackföreningssekreteraren

Production Company	AB Svensk Filmindustri
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1994
	AB Svensk Filmindustri
Distributor in Sweden (16 mm)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1994
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2015
Distributor in Sweden (Video)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1997
Distributor in Sweden (buy video)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1997
Laboratory	FilmTeknik AB
Make-up Supervisor	Firma Carl M. Lundh AB

Born at the very start of the 20th century, the working-class boy Olof Persson leaves his home in the North of Sweden at age 14 to enter his working life. He begins as a logger. Later he starts working at a cinema and still later joins an itinerant film projectionist on tour in the countryside, all the while becoming interested in literature, philosophy and politics.

Censorship number	105064
Date	1966-12-13
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	4630 meters
Notes	Aktindelning: 560-485-450-460-475-420-490-500-470-320 = 4630 m.

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	AGA-Baltic
Colour type	Black and white + colour
Colour system	Eastman Color
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	4630 meter
Length in minutes	169 min
Reels	10 reels
Dialogue	Swedish

Original title	Nu var det 1914 (Novel)
Author	Eyvind Johnson

Original title	Här har du ditt liv (Novel)
Author	Eyvind Johnson

Original title	Se dig inte om (Novel)
Author	Eyvind Johnson

Original title	Slutspel i ungdomen (Novel)
Author	Eyvind Johnson

			(kompletteringar i februari 1965)	1965-04	1965-12
Filmstaden	Råsunda	Sweden	(ateljé)
	Boden	Sweden
	Bovallen	Sweden
	Båtskärsnäs	Sweden
	Jokkmokk	Sweden
Ingarö kyrka	Stockholms skärgård	Sweden

Release in Sweden	1966-12-26	Saga	Boden	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Palladium	Borlänge	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	City	Falun	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Norden	Jokkmokk	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Palladium	Kiruna	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Forellen	Luleå	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Röda Kvarn	Stockholm	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Skandia	Uppsala	Sweden	169 min
First showing	1966-12-26	Saga	Boden	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Palladium	Borlänge	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	City	Falun	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Norden	Jokkmokk	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Palladium	Kiruna	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Forellen	Luleå	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Röda Kvarn	Stockholm	Sweden	169 min
	1966-12-26	Skandia	Uppsala	Sweden	169 min
Other showing	1970		Warsaw	Poland		(endast filmstudios)
TV showing	1973-04-23	TV1		Sweden	162 min
	1974-10-04	TV1		Sweden	162 min
	1981-12-13	TV2		Sweden	162 min
	1986-03-01	TV1		Sweden	162 min
	1997-01-04	SVT2		Sweden	162 min
	1997-08-29	SVT1		Sweden	162 min
Video release	1997-09			Sweden	162 min
TV showing	2000-07-29	SVT1		Sweden	162 min
	2004-07-11	SVT2		Sweden	162 min
	2006-08-15	SVT1		Sweden	162 min
FIAF showing	2009-01-08
	2009-01-09
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2009-01-21
	2009-01-25					AH.
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	2011-04-02
	2011-04-08
FIAF showing	2013-08-30
	2013-09-01
Cinematheque screening	2016-01-23	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
TV showing	2017-01-10	SVT1		Sweden
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2017-12
TV showing	2018-05-07	SVT1		Sweden
FIAF showing	2018-11-27
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-12-07
TV showing	2018-12-23	SVT24		Sweden
FIAF showing	2018-12-23
	2019-02-01
	2019-02-24
TV showing	2021-07-19	SVT1		Sweden
FIAF showing	2021-09-09			Austria
	2021-10-15			Austria
TV showing	2022-02-16	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-02-21	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-02-24	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-03-05	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-03-24	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-05-04	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-06-01	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-06-05	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-06-08	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-08-06	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-08-17	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-08-25	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-11-22	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-11-29	SF Kanalen		Sweden
Festival showing	2023			Sweden		Göteborg Filmfestival 2023, onlinevisning.
TV showing	2023-02-15	SF Kanalen		Sweden	169 min
	2023-02-20	SF Kanalen		Sweden	169 min
	2023-02-23	SF Kanalen		Sweden	169 min
	2023-03-04	SF Kanalen		Sweden
VOD release	2023-03-17	SVT Play		Sweden		Antal dagar på SVT Play 30
TV showing	2023-03-23	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-03	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-31	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-06-04	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-06-07	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-06-19	SF Kanalen		Sweden
VOD release	2023-09-29	SVT Play		Sweden		Antal dagar på SVT Play 30
TV showing	2023-11-21	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-11-28	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2024-02-14	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2024-02-19	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2024-03-02	SF Kanalen		Sweden

Original title	Jag gick mig åt körka
Composer	Allan Edwall
Lyrics	Allan Edwall
Singer	Allan Edwall

Original title	Herbstabend
Composer	Bernhard Axén

Original title	The Wedding of the Winds
Composer	John T. Hall	(1900)

Original title	L'Internationale
Composer	Pierre Degeyter	(1887)
Lyrics	Henrik Menander	(svensk text 1902)
	Eugène Pottier	(fransk text 1871)

Original title	Sörmlandspolskan

Original title	Serenade, piano, op. 37
Composer	Agathe Backer-Grøndahl	(1896)

Original title	Kaiser Friedrich-Marsch
Composer	Carl Friedemann	(1886)

Original title	Ship Ahoy!/All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor
Composer	Bennett Scott	(1909)
Lyrics	Knut Nyblom	(svensk text 1909)
	Arthur John Mills	(engelsk text 1909)
Singer	Ulla Sjöblom

Original title	La Marseillaise
Composer	Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle	(1792)
Lyrics	Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle	(fransk text 1792)
	Edvard Fredin	(svensk text 1889)

Confédération Int'l des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai	Berlin	1967
Comité Int'l pur la Diff. des Arts par le Cinéma	Berlin	1967
Filmbewertungsstelle (Wiesbaden)	Wiesbaden	1967			(prädikat: besonders wertvoll)
Golden Hugo	Chicago	1967			(bästa film)
International Inter-Church Film Center	Berlin	1967			(t.m. Pepé och pojken)
Silver Hugo	Chicago	1967		Jan Troell	(bästa regi)
Evangelische Filmgilde		1967			(monatsbeste)
The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	1967	Best Director	Jan Troell
The Swedish Film Institute's Quality Grant	Stockholm	1967			(bidrag om 476 906,09 kr)
Chaplin Magazine Award	Stockholm	1966		Jan Troell

Fabiola (1918)	Cited in	Here Is Your Life (1966)
Afgrunden (1910)	Cited in	Here Is Your Life (1966)
Från spex till sex (1971)	Citation included from	Here Is Your Life (1966)
Minns ni? (1993)	Citation included from	Here Is Your Life (1966)
Troell's Magic Mirror (2008)	Citation included from	Here Is Your Life (1966)
Jan Troell - ett porträtt (2001)	Citation included from	Here Is Your Life (1966)
En sann historia (1985)	Citation included from	Here Is Your Life (1966)

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	16 mm

Element type	Print
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Carrier type	35 mm
Length	4605

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Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	4567

Element type	Print
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Length	4605

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Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

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Carrier type	35 mm

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Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate positive
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	4630

Element type	Original picture negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Picture negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate positive for optical printing
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Picture negative
Carrier type	16 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	16 mm

Element type	Duplicate negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Intermediate audio recording
Carrier type	17.5 mm

Element type	Final mix
Carrier type	17.5 mm

Element type	Final mix
Carrier type	17.5 mm

Element type	Intermediate audio recording
Carrier type	17.5 mm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Poster title	HÄR HAR DU DITT LIV En film av Jan Troell efter Eyvind Johnsons "Romanen om Olof"
Tryckeri	Robert E. Petersen offset-bogtryck

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Poster title	HÄR HAR DU DITT LIV En film av Jan Troell efter Eyvind Johnsons "Romanen om Olof"
Designed by	Ranke Sandgren

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Poster title	HÄR HAR DU DITT LIV Pressuccé utan motstycke Lysande beröm i alla tidningar

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Poster title	HÄR HAR DU DITT LIV En film av Jan Troell efter Eyvind Johnsons "Romanen om Olof"
Tryckeri	Ewes O.B. -tryck
Designed by	Ranke Sandgren

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Poster title	HER HAR DU DIT LIV
Tryckeri	Parrot Litho A/S

Type	Press Cuttings

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Voici ta vie alt. Ta vie
Extent	44 s.
Language	French

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	Här har du ditt liv. Manuskript: Bengt Forslund och Jan Troell.
Extent	200 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Här har du ditt liv.
Extent	28 s. + 2 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Här har du ditt liv. This is Your life.
Extent	37 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	English

Script type	Peripheral material
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	Här har du ditt liv. Manuskript: Bengt Forslund och Jan Troell.
Extent	200 s.
Language	Swedish

Black and white print	SET
Behind the scenes prints	11
Slides	10
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	German

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	German

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	German

Sound type	Sound
Colour type	Black and white + colour
Length in minutes	162 min
Dialogue	Swedish

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	ProRes

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	DCP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	H264