Obsession
Cast & Crew
Gunnar Höglund
Matthias Henrikson
Maude Adelson
Lars Lind
Guy De La Berg
Johannes Blind
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
As a man identified only as "You" walks along the Kungsleden, an extended mountain trail in Lapland, he recalls a time, 10 years earlier, when he spent 3 days in the same region with Leni, a young Jewish refugee from a concentration camp. On their first night together, Leni virtually seduces You; the next evening, they quarrel when Leni accuses You of anti-Semitism; and, on the third night, You rapes Leni when she first encourages, then rejects, his advances. After reminiscing about their brief, unhappy affair, You finds evidence that Leni also has returned to the trail and is somewhere in the vicinity. Arriving at the spot where they parted 10 years ago, You finds Leni's dead body in a mountain stream. You buries her, then goes to a nearby cottage where he and Leni once spent some time. Discovering that another man has been sleeping there, he concludes that this stranger must have murdered Leni. Though he becomes lost in the mountains, You--obsessed with a feeling of guilt and a need for vengeance--tracks down the stranger, who offers to help him get back on the trail. You causes his death and then walks off uncertainly into the mountain mist.
Director
Gunnar Höglund
Cast
Matthias Henrikson
Maude Adelson
Lars Lind
Guy De La Berg
Johannes Blind
Crew
Vernon P. Becker
Georg Eriksson
Seivi Everstein
Bosse Gustafson
Gunnar Höglund
Kurt Holmberg
Olle Lenander
Mel May
Jan Persson
Karl-erik Welin
Lars Werner
Bertil Wiktorsson
Film Details
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Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Released in Sweden in December 1964 as Kungsleden; running time: 107 min. Shown at the 1965 San Francisco Film Festival as The Royal Track.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1969
Released in United States 1969
