''Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia'' is a 1991 Swedish

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directed by

Anders Grönros Erik Anders Sixten Grönros (born 19 October 1953), is a Swedish film director. He was awarded the Guldbagge Award for Best Director at the 27th Guldbagge Awards, for the film '' Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia''. In 2007, his documentary ...

, based on Maria Gripe's young adult novel of the same name. Grönros won the award for

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and Per Källberg won the award for Best Cinematography at the

27th Guldbagge Awards The 27th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 1991, and took place on 16 March 1992. '' Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem'' directed by Jan Troell was presented with the award for Bes ...

. It was also nominated for Best Film and Gloria Tapia was nominated for

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Plot

As a five-year-old, Nora loses her parents in a car accident. Her relatives never tell her the truth of what happened. Ten years later, Nora moves with her foster family into an old apartment building, where strange things begin to happen. She hears footsteps stopping outside her room, she barely escapes a fatal accident thanks to an anonymous phone call, and a book of Russian folk tales repeatedly falls open to the page reading "

Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What (, Transliteration, translit. ''Poydi tuda, ne znau kuda, prinesi to, ne znau chto'') is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''. Synopsis A royal ...

". Together with her foster brother Dag, Nora searches for answers to all the questions surrounding her.

Production

Filming took place in

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, and

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between 9 October 1989 and May 1990.

Cast

* Gloria Tapia – Eleonora "Nora" Hed * Ronn Elfors – Dag Sjöborg *

Stina Ekblad Stina Åsa Maria Ekblad (born 26 February 1954) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. Living in Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as wel ...

– Karin Sjöborg * Allan Svensson – Anders Sjöborg * Vanna Rosenberg – Lena, Nora's friendess * Cecilia Milocco – Agnes Cecilia Eng / Tetti *

Mimi Pollak Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak (9 April 1903 – 11 August 1999) was a Swedish actress and theatre director. Biography Pollak was born in Karlstad, Värmland to Austrian-Jewish parents and was trained in the performing arts at the prestigious Ro ...

– Hulda Persson, Inga's mother * Meta Velander – Vera Alm, Nora's mat. grandmother * Percy Brandt – Birger Alm, Nora's mat. grandfather * Natasha Chiapponi-Grönros – Nora as a child * Benjamin Elfors – Dag as a child * Bojan Westin – Inga, Lena's mat. grandmother * Suzanne Reuter – Carita Eng, Tetti's mother * Beatrice Chiapponi-Grönros – Anna Hed, Nora's mother *

Björn Andrésen Björn Johan Andrésen (born 26 January 1955) is a Swedish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella '' Death in Venice''. He also played a ...

– Per Hed, Nora's father * Olle Johansson – Clockmaker * Måns Westfelt – Doll-doctor * Fredrik Grundel – Teacher * Anne Otto – Nurse * Clemens Paal – Construction-worker

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Agnes Cecilia En Sallsam Historia 1991 films 1990s mystery films 1990s Swedish-language films Films whose director won the Best Director Guldbagge Award Swedish mystery films 1990s Swedish films