Faces in Shadow is Peter Weiss first film outside of home and studio studies. It is a kind of lyrical ‘cinema verite’ describing his familiar surroundings, his neighborhood in the old town of Stockholm. Together with Christer Strömholm, the photographer and soundtechnician who also lived in the same part of town, Weiss has documented the old men who populated the neighborhood-still in the fifties, a kind of a small town with beerhalls, dairyshops, outhouses and vendors of firewood. The film is shot against a sound collage taken from the various beerhalls.

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