I HUVUDET PÅ BO

Being Bo Widerberg is the story of the acclaimed and eccentric director who in the shadow of Ingmar Bergman became Sweden’s most influential film-maker. The film describes Widerberg’s celebration during the progressive early 1960s, from being an aspiring author and a harsh critic in working-class Malmö to his heydays as hallmarked film auteur in Stockholm and on to adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also shows to what cost Bo Widerberg’s career, or rather his ardent search for life, came at – on his colleagues, on his family and on himself.