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Director's Statement
EVERLASTING MOMENTS is the result of an involvement that began as far back as 1986 when Agneta, my wife, in real life met Maja, eldest daughter of Maria, the film’s central character. Maria was a poverty-stricken, working-class woman with seven children who won a camera in a lottery and there after photographed the life of her family and the life around her, through the rest of her life. Agneta realized that this could become a marvelous book and she interviewed Maja up to her death at the age of 92. I, too, realized that this was unique material about life in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century. The description of the importance of photography really gripped me, as I have been a devotee of still photography since I was 14. The fantastic Fellini-like gallery of characters also fascinated me, so did the social perspective. When I grew up in Limhamn it was still a working-class suburb on the outskirts of Malmö, and even though my father was a dentist and I hailed from a different social class than that of my playmates and therefore had an outsider’s perspective, I have no problem recognizing the people and the milieu in which the story takes place. It was for many years a dream for me to make a film that takes place in precisely such an environment as this, a film story that affords me the opportunity of drawing on my own childhood feelings and memories.