I Am Curious (Yellow) (Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult)

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"Lena Nyman. Drama Student. Age 22."

- Please! - No.

"Vilgot Sjöman. Director. Age 42."

- But I really want to. - No.

I AM CURIOUS

I'm not! You and your films!

- I thought it was my mom. - Your mom!

I AM CURIOUS

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A YELLOW FILM

Dear friends.

"Yevtushenko. Russian poet. Age 33." - Dear friends.

We are very grateful to you for...

Louder! Louder!

Right on, radical students!

Farther left!

Left! Left! Left!

Farther left!

Do you see that guy?

His name's Magnus. He's an actor.

He'd be great as the slave.

Him?

I could have a love scene with him.

- What kind of love scene? - Just a quickie, you know.

Well...

Dear friends!

I've heard this is a revolutionary student organization.

But if you organize the revolution like this meeting, can it succeed?

It's a damned shame she doesn't understand politics.

But God, drama students!

Over Babi Yar

there are no memorials.

The steep hillside...

I must tell Lena about the fate of Swedish socialism.

No, about the two heads of Swedish socialism.

The big, self-satisfied one, and the little, shrunken one.

LENA ON THE ROAD

I "smuggled" Lena into my bed.

She doesn't dare tell her mom she's spending the night with me.

Her mom thinks she's spending the night with a girlfriend.

Bergman always used to say it's bad to fall for your star.

You get blind to her affectations.

It never happened to him, though.

I met Lena when we shot 491,

but nothing much happened then.

We felt a little attraction. Small fireworks, that's all.

Those were the days!

- Is there a class system in Sweden? - A class system?

I don't think so.

We have... I mean,

everybody sort of sticks together.

I don't know. I can't answer that.

Ask someone else.

- I don't think so. - You don't?

No politics, thanks.

- Does Sweden have a class system? - Yes!

An architect or a doctor earns 10-15 times

a restaurant worker's wage.

- Do you think that's fair? - Yes, it's fair.

It takes at least seven more years of studies

and a lot of self-sacrifice.

But 10-15 times more, that's an awful lot.

Isn't it too much?

Well, I wouldn't say it's far too much.

It's fair because those who don't have the intellectual ability

could never manage a grueling higher education.

Not everybody can manage it.

- I have to go now. - Thank you.

- Do women have equal opportunities? - Yes, I suppose so.

Sure, if not more so.

Aren't women the ones who rule now?

Is this hospital a hierarchy?

No.

So there's no difference between a doctor and a nurse's assistant?

Well, of course, in the dining hall, then there's a difference.

- When you eat? - Yes, when you eat.

- Is there a class system in Sweden? - What?

Is there a class system in Sweden?

No.

- Could you say more? - I missed the question!

Sorry to interrupt your newspaper reading.

- Does Sweden have a class system? - I'm not Swedish.

- You don't understand Swedish? - I do, but I'm not Swedish.

I don't understand. I only speak German.

I... not... Swedish.

- Do we have a class system? - Yes, we do.

- What? In a way. - Class society.

Yes, I think so.

- No, I don't think so. - Have the class barriers gone?

We have a bit further to go.

We can't go much further.

Wages have to differ for productivity if society is to function.

No interviews!

It was the white-collar workers in the '30s.

The gap's wider today.

It depends on the people.

Undress them and they're all alike.

Dress them, and you have a class system.

To learn more about this,

I visited the Labor Movement headquarters.

There can't be a class system.

We live in a democratic society.

- Are you from the Labor Movement? - No.

- Are you from the Labor Movement? - No.

- None of you? - No.

- Are you? - No.

- Are you? - No.

How come the Labor Movement is so damned conservative on women's equality?

You've found the Labor Movement is conservative on women's equality?

If that's true, it could be

because a lot of Swedes are conservative.

So there must be plenty in the Labor Movement, too.

Why don't women have equal chances and job opportunities?

- That's what you allege. - Are you saying it isn't true?

I'm just saying give me proof.

Present facts, not just words.

My mother is a fur seamstress.

She works every day of the year.

- She earns about 14,000 crowns. - What would I make as a seamstress?

- You'll never be one. - Who knows?

Does Sweden have a class system?

Yes, to a certain extent.

What are you doing about it?

I'm going to climb!

- Because I'm part of this society. - You work in the Labor Movement.

No.

- What do you do? - I'm an architect.

- Yes, there is a class system. - What are you doing about it?

- Nothing at the moment, anyway. - Why not?

Our society has class barriers,

and we follow democratic laws

over which the individual doesn't have much influence.

- The individual can't do much. - Can't he or she do anything?

I don't think so.

I'm not an active union member.

- We're going to negotiate. - What happens then?

You don't know how these things work?

- No. - Then'll you have to ask them?

Yes, I must ask them.

That's why I'm asking you.

Read the newspapers!

What happens at such negotiations?

Do they get results?

How long will it take to remove class barriers in Sweden?

A very long time, probably.

Why?

People are very conservative.

- They don't want radical change. - Such as what?

Extended governmental activities, for one thing.

And more extensive control over businesses is another.

Anything else?

What else are we going to do?

So you think you're doing something to get rid of the class system?

- As much as I can. - Why can't you do more?

It has to do with what your social position is.

So you have to be at the very top?

No! It must be pressure from below

that is felt all the way to the top.

Do the really powerful, influential big shots do what they can, then?

"Olof Palme. Minister of Transport. Age 39."

I think we still have strong elements of a class system.

Someone called it a class system based on income,

and it's easy to see why.

Rural workers earn less than city workers.

Women earn less than men.

Older people earn less than the young.

Our educational system perpetuates the class system.

Those who graduate from a university

earn 6-7 times more than those

who leave school to work out in the countryside.

Come out, please! That banging is recorded on the sound track!

I have found this problem of a class system in Sweden

to be a tough one.

What is your own background?

I come from a middle-class family.

You read, you see what's happening,

and suddenly a pattern emerges.

This happened to me between the ages of 15 and 20,

when I observed American society.

- You traveled in the States? When? - In '47-'48. I hitchhiked.

Through 34 states. Three months with no money.

I've been influenced by a lot of things I've read.

Fiction has enormous political importance,

and political economics and visual impressions.

It's a good mixture.

What would you like to say?

- How much more time do you need? - Another 15 minutes.

"Mårten ('Mouse'), Age 5."

Mouse! That's right. The mouse wanted to be here.

He forgot his question.

He didn't want Olof to become a minister.

Neither did I!

Foreigners tend to think that we're far ahead of everyone else.

Are we?

Compared to other countries, yes.