My People Are Not Yours

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My People Are Not Yours
Directed byWeyler Hildebrand
Written byWeyler Hildebrand
Based onMy People Are Not Yours by Carin Fischer-Hugne
StarringSonja Wigert
Gunnar Björnstrand
Hampe Faustman
CinematographyGöran Strindberg
Edited byTor Hagman
Music byGunnar Johansson
Production
company
Kungsfilm
Distributed byKungsfilm
Release date
  • 19 June 1944 (1944-06-19)
Running time
106 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

My People Are Not Yours (Swedish: Mitt folk är icke ditt) is a 1944 Swedish drama film directed by Weyler Hildebrand and starring Sonja Wigert, Gunnar Björnstrand and Hampe Faustman. It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director P.A. Lundgren. It was one of several Swedish films made during the period set in occupied countries similar to German-controlled Denmark and Norway.[1]

Synopsis

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Elsie, a pianist returns home after a world tour. At the home of her shipowner father an air raid disturbs them and is followed by an invasion by a foreign country. One of the officers of the occupying army turns out to be Major Rolf von Ritter, with whom she had a romance before the conflict.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Wright p.77

Bibliography

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  • Wright, Rochelle. The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film. SIU Press, 1998.
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