Rackelhane

One day Toivo, an angler, finds out that the hydro-electric company wants to build a plant in the last wild river in Europe - in his stream. All except Toivo has sold the rights to the company. It’s not for nothing they call him the ”angler”. Things don’t improve as his doctor (Marika Lagercrantz) tells him that he has a terminal disease. Now he has something to fight for - and at the same time he strives to pass his knowledge about the river, the stream and the nature to someone. Together with a boy the angler goes out to capture the ”great-salmon-trout”.Through a magnificent bird’s perspective we travel slowly and look down at the river, that curls like a snake through the landscape. Swedish film is normally associated with stunning nature. Arne Sucksdorff’s The Great Adventure is a classic. But Rackelhane has more in common with Stefan Jarl’s politically tainted nature poetry, which you can find in films such as Nature’s Revenge or Time Has No Name. Rackelhane starts out with from one of the four elements - water, the elixir of life. The water is one of the oldest and most used symbols not only in film but also in painting and photography. It’s a rough fight against progress. What’s at stake now is water, life giving and constantly changeable, without which mankind and Mother Earth couldn’t survive. Göran Nilsson has created something not only worth considering but also something very suggestive and beautiful.

Medverkande
Lars Green, Håkan Falk, Marika Lagercrantz, Göran Forsmark, Gunilla Röör: Producent
Göran Nilsson: Manus
Göran Nilsson: Foto
Göran Nilsson: Musik
Göran Criborn, Morgan Ågren: Talat språk
Swedish