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Sweetwater (1988)

Sweetwater poster
Directed by
Lasse Glomm
Genre
drama film, thriller film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
15
Rating
4.2 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a chaotic future, people struggle to survive as society breaks down. The film follows their fight for safety and resources in a lawless world.

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What happens

Sweetwater is a 1988 Norwegian science-fiction thriller film directed by Lasse Glomm. It is about the struggle to survive in an anarchic vision of the future, and it is based on the novels Uår. Aftenlandet and Uår. Sweetwater by Knut Faldbakken. The books were published in 1974 and 1976. Sweetwater was filmed at locations in Rome and London. The film has been aired on NRK several times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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