Summary "...a cry, my life's long suppressed" Drama documentary about the Norwegian writer Camilla Collett, née Wergeland (1813-1895), based on contemporary memoirs, letters, diaries and literary texts, by Tone Bengtsson. Camilla Collett was the youngest sister of the poet Henrik Wergeland. In social life in 1830's Kristiania, she makes great fortune with her charm and beauty. She falls passionately in love with the young, beautiful poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven, her brother's bitterest enemy. She never gets over the fact that Welhaven finally breaks up with her and she saves all his letters and her own reflections in a black box, where the basis for her entire socially critical writing is found, she says herself.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Kåre Conradi Andrine Sæther Yngvar Ustvedt Tone Bengtsson
Genres : Drama Documentary
Release date : Jan 22, 1999
Countries of origin : Sweden
Official sites : Official website
Language : Norwegian Swedish
Production companies : SVT Kultur
Summary "...a cry, my life's long suppressed" Drama documentary about the Norwegian writer Camilla Collett, née Wergeland (1813-1895), based on contemporary memoirs, letters, diaries and literary texts, by Tone Bengtsson. Camilla Collett was the youngest sister of the poet Henrik Wergeland. In social life in 1830's Kristiania, she makes great fortune with her charm and beauty. She falls passionately in love with the young, beautiful poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven, her brother's bitterest enemy. She never gets over the fact that Welhaven finally breaks up with her and she saves all his letters and her own reflections in a black box, where the basis for her entire socially critical writing is found, she says herself.
Genres : Drama Documentary
Release date : Jan 22, 1999
Countries of origin : Sweden
Official sites : Official website
Language : Norwegian Swedish
Production companies : SVT Kultur
