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Sisters 1968 (2018)

Sisters 1968 poster
Original title
Systrar 1968
Genre
drama
Country
Sweden
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1968, a young woman from a working-class background gets a summer job at a local newspaper in a small Swedish town. She is politically minded and wants to become a journalist, so she navigates the newsroom and the people around her.

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What happens

Sisters 1968 (Swedish: Systrar 1968) is a three-part 2018 Swedish miniseries created and written by Martina Bigert and Maria Thulin. Directed by Kristina Humle, the series centres on Karin (Mikaela Knapp), a politically-inclined aspiring journalist from a working-class background, who takes a summer job with a local newspaper in Ystad. The miniseries premiered 25 December 2018 on SVT1. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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