A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon

Oct 22, 1983

1h 36m

★ 7.0

Overview

A biopic of the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky.

Genres

Drama

Romance

History

Production Companies

MovieMakers

Svenska Filminstitutet

SVT

Sandrews

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Cast

Sonja Kovalevskij

Gunilla Nyroos

Maxim Kovalevskij

Thommy Berggren

Ann-Charlotte Lefler

Bibi Andersson

Gustaf Edgren

Ingvar Hirdwall

Gösta Mittag-Leffler

Iwar Wiklander

Martha Mittag-Leffler

Gerd Hegnell

Foufa Kovaevskij

Lina Pleijel

Greta

Birgitta Ulfsson

Anton

Roland Hedlund

Kvinna i Paris

Barbro Christenson

Weierstrass

Percy Brandt

Bordskavaljer

Carl Billquist

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

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