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Ungen (1938)

Ungen poster
Directed by
Rasmus Breistein
Genre
drama film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
A
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A working class family faces a life changing event when a young woman becomes pregnant. Her parents struggle with shame and poverty in a close knit neighborhood.

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What happens

Ungen (The Child or The Kid) is a Norwegian drama film from 1938 directed by Rasmus Breistein. The lead roles are played by Eva Sletto, Harald Heide Steen, and Ragnhild Hald. It is a film adaptation of Oskar Braaten's 1911 play Ungen: folkeliv i fire akter (The Child: Everyday Life in Four Acts). A new version of the film was made in 1974 as a musical. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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