Cinemateca Portuguesa pays tribute to Swedish post-war director Hampe Faustman
In November, Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon – one of Europe’s most renowned cinémathèques – hosts a retrospective of six films directed by Swedish filmmaker and actor Erik “Hampe” Faustman.
Hampe Faustman made his directorial debut in 1943, and until his premature death in 1961 (at the age of 42) he made no less than 19 feature-length films. Hailed at the time as Sweden’s foremost realist film