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Amorosa
SWEDEN · 1986

Amorosa

Mai Zetterling
mental illness marriage and relationships autobiography and writing artistic struggle institutional confinement
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Synopsis

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown wit

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