NFB Collection
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