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Staffan Lamms’s mother was a doctor and in 1945 she worked with women who had been in concentration camps, among them Sara. Sara shares her horrendous memories but eventually recovers and returns to society. However, in the end Sara commits suicide.
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Staffan Lamm was born in Stockholm. Autodidact with no formal film training. He started out working with Peter Weiss, and has been active as a freelance documentary filmmaker since the early 60’s, mainly for Sveriges Television (SVT). He has also worked as a cinematographer, scriptwriter and director. In 1993 he wrote and directed the feature film Morfars resa (Grandpa’s Journey) starring Max von Sydow. In 1999 he made the shorts Emma, Ruben and Sara that were nominated for Guldbaggen, the Swedish national film award, the same year.