Media gallery for
Paradise Square

The emotionally damaged, King (Toni Magnusson) is one of Paradise’s children .

Paradise Square became one of Sweden’s major cinema export successes of the 1970s.

Birgitta Valberg’s (Katha Wik) performance was awarded with the Guldbagge Award in 1977.

Katha would like Paradise Square to be an idyllic place, the idyll she experienced as a child. But the traditions are wearying, family ties are broken and the generations can’t get along. Life outside the summer idyll inflict severe wounds on Paradise’s most presistent defender.

What are we doing to our children? Is one of the central questions of Gunnel Lindblom’s debut as a film director.

Gunnel Lindblom and cinematographer Tony Forsberg during the filming of Paradise Square.

Gunnel Lindblom with Sif Ruud (Emma) and Holger Löwenadler (Wilhelm) during filming of Paradise Square. Lindblom’s collaboration with Bergman on stage, film, and radio came to span an impressive 50 years, starting in 1955 when she played Mathurine in Don Juan.