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It's bad. Normally I would not waste my time watching a bad movie (that I know beforehand will be bad), but at the same time it is fascinating. I guess what fascinates me and other swedish viewers is the fact that this is really CAMP. It is funny sometimes - and corny most of the time, but that is part of the charm. I will watch out for the other Åsa-Nisse movies as they are shown at odd hours on some TV channel, because they are part of our heritage. Don't ask me why, though.

This is a film about a married couple in Nicaragua that the director has followed for some 15 years up to the end of 1999. It is very interesting and at the same time depressing to see the difficult conditions people have to live through in this dirt poor community called San Fernando. You leave the film wanting to know more - and I hope there will be a follow-up in 5-10 years from now.

A truly corny documentary, but I am sure there were some amazing scenes for the people of 1940. The speaker, who seems to be the director as well, Stig Wesslén, says it took six years to make the movie; and I cannot help wondering what took six years, as there are only five or six different episodes. Anyway; badly filmed and very strange commentaries (dialogue) during the film. Anyway; compared to today's documentaries this is very bad; but in 1940 it was certainly interesting to watch bears and wolves and so on from the northern part of Sweden.