The New Man

IMDb link: 0796236
IMDb rating: 6.8 (901 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Klaus Haro
Cast: Ellen Jelinek, Lo Kauppi, Ann-Sofie Nurmi, Nadja Mirmiran and others

Release date: 23 Feb 2007
Release year: 2007
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: Finland, Sweden
Keywords: sweden, suicide, sterilization, society, social politics, social injustice, social inequality, social differences, pregnancy, poverty

Plot:

The film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affecting 63,000 people between 1934 and 1976.

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