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The Rooster
SWEDEN · 1981

The Rooster

Lasse Hallström
workplace dynamics gender relations post-war Sweden corruption and manipulation class and materialism
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Synopsis

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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