The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence is a 2012 Swedish film, directed by Jan Troell and starring Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Björn Granath and Ulla Skoog. It is set between 1933 and 1945, and focuses on the life and career of Torgny Segerstedt, a Swedish newspaper editor who was a prominent critic of Hitler and the Nazis during a period when the Swedish government and monarch were intent on maintaining Sweden's neutrality and avoiding tensions with Germany. The film also deals with Segerstedt's relations with his wife, his mistress, and his mistress's husband (who was a close friend of Segerstedt). The film's Swedish title, Dom över död man, comes from a line in the Old Norse poem Hávamál: "Cattle die, kinsmen die, thou wilt also die; but I know one thing that never dies: the judgment on the dead".<ref>[http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Hávamál Hávamál, verse 77] Linked 2013-05-18</ref> Cast Jesper Christensen as Torgny Segerstedt Pernilla August as Maja Forssman Björn Granath as Axel Forssman Ulla Skoog as Puste Segerstedt Peter Andersson as Foreign Minister Christian Günther Amanda Ooms Maria Heiskanen as Pirjo Lennart Hjulström as Marcus Wallenberg Johanna Troell as Ingrid Segerstedt Birte Heribertsson as Estrid Ancker Lia Boysen as Anita Josef Persson as young revolutionary Kenneth Milldoff as Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson Jan Tiselius as Gustaf V Production