" Beautiful yet uninspired " was the assessment of Pauline Kael . " Lush and lyrical as it is , it ’s fundamentally didactic , with stereotyped social-realist characters . And because Widerberg seems to work best in vignettes and to have architectural problems when he ’s working on such a large scale , his argument is n’t clear ; he makes the little points but not the big ones . So when the violence erupts , we do n’t really understand its political significance – we ’re left ' appreciating ' it , in a rather embarrassed way , for its pictorial values . " Widerberg won the award for Best Direction , and actor Roland Hedlund won for Best Actor at the 6th Guldbagge Awards . Internationally , the film won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film . It won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association
6th Guldbagge Awards
6th Guldbagge Awards
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