his bed surrounded by colleagues he asks for Anna - who is at first reluctant but eventually appears, to The Count's satisfaction. Later Giliap has bought a flower bouquet for Anna, but arriving at her apartment he is greeted by The Count who tells him she has left for that seaside hotel. Giliap goes there, finds her and embraces her. She starts to cry and they share dinner in a room she is sharing with another girl working at the same hotel. The Count arrives at the seaside hotel and asks for whiskey. In the morning Anna once again tries to persuade Giliap to go away with her, before leaving for work. Outside she runs into The Count, who shows her lots of money, but she dismisses him. He then brings out a gun and shoots her. Giliap and Anna's roommate walk out and find the money scattered all over the beach and start to collect it, before discovering Anna's body in the sand. Afterwards Anna's friends leaves on a train, leaving Giliap alone. Cast Thommy Berggren as "Giliap" Mona Seilitz as Anna Gustavsson Willie Andréason as Gustav Svensson, "The Count" Lars-Levi Læstadius as Kreip Henry Olhans as "The Vulture" Rainer Mieth as Fat chef Julie Bernby as Singer Arne Leif Nielsen as Simonsson Pernilla August as Girl at Summer Hotel Reception The reviews were very negative with almost no exception, calling it pretentious, old fashioned and reactionary on the level of a high school student caught up in French films from the 30s. Sverker Andréason wrote in the Swedish magazine : "These people are evasively walking around each other, saying curious things of the type 'we are destruction people' and 'we live like migratory birds' and in the end I get the impression that Roy Andersson has got his whole philosophy of life from some film club that has gone through the dark French pre-war cinema with him, you know the one in which Jean Gabin always got shot right on the final step towards liberation." After the initial reviews, the film gained some recognition, both in Sweden and abroad. In Expressen, Lars Forssell, a member of the Swedish Academy, urged everybody to see it, arguing that this film should be viewed in the same way a poetry collection by Göran Sonnevi should be read, and further comparing the atmosphere to the poetry of Gustaf Fröding. In popular culture