The Burden They Carry

197028 min 6 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Mort Ransen

Production: Tom DalyJohn Kemeny

Script: James Carney

Co-produced by the NFB and the Swedish Institute for Cultural Relations.

Shows one of Sweden's best known sex educators, Dr. Maj-Britt Bergström-Wahlan, as she speaks with a class of eight- and nine-year-old boys and girls. Later, she holds an informal discussion with an uninhibited group of teenagers, some from Sweden, others from the United States and Great Britain. The film concludes with a poem on the meaning of love and happiness, read by an elderly lady from an old people's home after she has visited a public exhibition of erotic art.

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Subject categories


  • Foreign Countries > Scandinavia
  • Sexuality and Reproduction > Sex Education Materials
  • Children and Youth > Sexuality

Credits


director
Mort Ransen
producer
Tom Daly
John Kemeny
commentary
James Carney
photography
Martin Duckworth
sound
Tommy Bergh
editing
Donald Rennick
sound editing
Bernard Bordeleau