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Min balsamerade mor (2002)

Min balsamerade mor poster
Directed by
Osborn Bladini
Genre
documentary film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
59 min
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A dramatized documentary about Count Gustaf Piper who loses his wife to tuberculosis in 1816. Grief-stricken, he has her embalmed and keeps her body in his castle home.

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What happens

Min balsamerade mor är en dramadokumentär på 59 minuter som visades på Sveriges Television den 2 januari 2002 med repris den 5 januari 2002. Filmen är skriven och regisserad efter autentiska händelser och fria tolkningar av dramatikern och regissören Osborn Bladini. Filmen handlar om greve Gustaf Piper som den 15 augusti 1816 förlorar sin hustru Jaquette Du Rietz, endast 35 år, i lungsot. Hon efterlämnar fyra döttrar och i sin förtvivlan låter greven balsamera hustrun och placerar henne i sitt hem, Mariedals slott. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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