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Prison(1949)
Status: Released
Date: 1949-03-19
71%
44 Votes
Time: 1h 20m
Overview:
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Languages: Swedish.
Countries:
Sweden
ProductionCompanies:
Terrafilm
Movie: Prison
Top 10 Billed Cast
Doris Svedlund
Birgitta Carolina Söderberg
Birger Malmsten
Thomas
Eva Henning
Sofi
Hasse Ekman
Martin Grande
Stig Olin
Peter
Irma Christenson
Linnea
Anders Henrikson
Paul
Marianne Löfgren
Mrs. Bohlin
Curt Masreliez
Alf
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A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Release Date
1949-03-19
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