Födelsen (1979)

Before Gudrun Schyman became a controversial left wing politician she was an ordinary social worker. She lived in Skåne together with the filmmaker Lars Westman and on June 8, 1978, she gave birth to a son, Dan, of Ystad Hospital. The film is about this event and is something as unique as a real-time birth. This means that we will be able to follow the whole process, since the prospective mother takes place in the hospital bed and begins to work with her pain until the moment she is born 55 minutes later. In film context, this is remarkable because you experience it as if you are actually there, present throughout your childbirth. In reality, of course, it took longer, as several clips in the film testify. But the remarkable is how this film gives the impression of following a course altogether, without embellishing, changing or interfering with time and space.