Pig Hunt

Pig Hunt (1970)

Grisjakten

"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

Date of release
1970-03-11
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jonas Cornell

Casting

Interesting facts

Grisjakten is a 1970 Swedish film, made by Jonas Cornell after a 1968 novel by P. C. Jersild starring Hans Alfredsson and Keve Hjelm The film's genre is difficult to classify, it's an absurdly told story on an absurd matter. It's presumably best described as a non comedy satire. A dry and serious encounter with the Swedish bureaucracy and democracy as of Sweden around 1970. The question "Is everything decided by a parliamentary majority the same as democracy?" is fundamental to this film.

Production

Screenplay: P.C. Jersild, Jonas Cornell, Lars Svanberg

Based on: Grisjakten (novel by P.C. Jersild)

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