491 (1964)
March 16, 1964Release Date
491 (1964)
March 16, 1964Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Lars Lind
Krister
Leif Nymark
Nisse
Stig Törnblom
Egon
Lars Hansson
Pyret
Sven Algotsson
Jingis
Vilgot Sjöman
Director
Torleif Cederstrand
Butcher
Lars Görling
Writer
Bo Andersson
Fisken
Lena Nyman
Steva
Georg Riedel
Composer
Mona Andersson
Kajsa
Gunnar Fischer
Cinematographer
Frank Sundström
Inspector
Lennart Wallén
Editor
Åke Grönberg
Reverend Mild
Jan Blomberg
Tester
Siegfried Wald
German Sailor
Wilhelm Fricke
German Sailor
Erik Hell
Policeman
Leif Liljeroth
Policeman
Excellent
Ray
Katinka Faragó
Script Supervisor
Allan Ekelund
Production Manager
P.A. Lundgren
Art Direction
Lars-Owe Carlberg
Executive Producer
Per-Olof Pettersson
Sound
Britt Falkemo
Makeup Department Head
Jan Halldoff
Still Photographer
Bengt Ottekil
Wigmaker
Raymond Lundberg
Assistant Director
Rolf Holmqvist
First Assistant Camera
Georg Engstrand
Gaffer
Sture Arelind
Gaffer
Stig Jonsson
Gaffer
Claes Börje Wernqvist
Gaffer
Rune Håkansson
Grip
Yngve Söderlund
Grip
K.A. Bergman
Property Master
Bertha Sånnell
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
491 is a 1964 Swedish black-and-white drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman, based on a novel by Lars Görling. The story is about a group of youth criminals who are chosen to participate in a social experiment in which they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers. The film's tagline is: "It is written that 490 times you can sin and be forgiven. This motion picture is about the 491st."
This controversial film, which featured a male homosexual rape scene, was first banned in Sweden, but was rereleased after reediting. One of the excised scenes depicted a woman being raped by a dog. The film was also banned in Norway until 1971.
The reactions from especially conservative circles in Sweden were of disgust and outrage, and the outrage was among the reasons why the Christian Democratic Party was founded in 1964.