with a blacksmith's family on a vacation between touring and the cinema. He meets Maja (Catti Edfeldt), the blacksmith's daughter; they have sex in the field. Afterward, she cries. Olof starts going to meetings concerning communism and its place working-class Sweden, and writing poetry. When he goes back to the cinema, Olof's boss gets mad that he was handing out "socialist rags". Olof quits. He goes back on tour and works for Olivia. They enter into a relationship and then break up. Olof continues visiting home and going to communist meetings. Later on, Olof starts working for the railroad company. He works with a man named Niklas (Per Oscarsson), and they have similar opinions about capitalism. Niklas shouts, "Damn capitalist rot!” They both proclaim their pro-socialist opinions to their boss, Byberg (Bengt Ekerot). They prank Byberg as well. Olof spares food for hobos on the train, and starts leading communist meetings. At a party, Olof gets very drunk, throws up, and falls down. Back with the circus, Olivia gives Olof a final speech of sorts about giving up and how hard life can be. A scene with a bird flying that was shown at the beginning, with characteristic music, is repeated. Olof goes back to his foster mother (Gudrun Brost) before travelling on. He finally buys a hat he had been admiring earlier in the film. In the final scene, Olof walks along railroad tracks in heavy snow, onto whatever is next. Selected cast Historical context Released in 1966, Here Is Your Life was director Jan Troell's first feature-length film. The main character is growing up in a Sweden that is also developing, in the midst of the early twentieth century. This film, through the lens of 1960s Sweden, tells the story of a boy learning and responding to the environment around him. Films about large-scale wars, such as World War I, are often produced in differing waves after the war is over. The release of Here's Your Life marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Great War, like many other films of its time. Sweden was looking back and considering its state of neutrality during the war and how this neutrality affected Sweden's people. When reviewing the past effects of neutrality, Sweden was looking to the future and its position in the Cold War. Like many European countries in the mid-twentieth century, Sweden began to introduce welfare capitalism. Specifically, Sweden