the last sentence ( swedish : dom över död man ; judgement on the dead ) is a swedish film from 2012 , 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 " .

the last sentence

i loved the last sentence the most , but the whole piece is refreshing .
director jan troell on the set of “the last sentence . ” photo courtesy of music box films .
a picture caption on june 15 with an article about the director jan troell misstated part of the name of his new film . it is “the last sentence , ” not “the final sentence . ”
she was familiar with the words of the last sentence , and was delighted when allowed to act them out .
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torgny segerstedt ( jesper christensen ) in jan troell’s “the last sentence . ” photo courtesy of music box films .
maja forssman ( pernilla august ) in jan troell’s “the last sentence . ” photo courtesy of music box films .
a pakistan military court had awarded the death sentence to kulbhushan jadhav last month for alleged espionage and subversive activities for india .
top image : torgny segerstedt ( jesper christensen ) in jan troell’s “the last sentence . ” photo courtesy of music box films .
neither makes “the last sentence” an especially great movie . it’s a thoughtful and workmanlike portrait , but a less than profoundly moving one .
“the last sentence , ” starring : jesper christensen , ulla skoog , pernilla august , björn granat . in swedish with english subtitles .
pernilla august dancing with jesper christensen in “the last sentence , ” a portrait of the swedish newspaper editor torgny segerstedt , directed by jan troell .
amazingly , troell still operates his own camera .
the last sentence
was made digitally , and his attention to detail is remarkable .
if you begin your quotation of an author in the middle of a sentence , you need not indicate deleted words with an ellipsis . be sure , however , that the syntax of the quotation fits smoothly with the syntax of your sentence :
‘i was there the day he said he’d written the last sentence . he came in like he’d won the world cup ! then he explained that though he’d written the last lines , he still had half the book to write . ’
with
the last sentence ,
veteran swedish director jan troell serves up a well - mannered biography of a man known for anything but his restraint .
at last the baggage wagons had all crossed , the crush was less , and the last battalion came onto the bridge .
■ international court of justice ( icj ) at the hague begins hearing on indian national kulbhushan jadhav’s death sentence by pakistan .
■ india calls for immediate suspension of kulbhushan jadhav’s sentence and accuses pakistan of violating vienna convention of consular access .
according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night .
the conversation and the examination of the accounts with mitenka did not last long .
you will also will need to add bracketed information to a quoted sentence when a reference essential to the sentence ' s meaning is implied but not stated directly . read the following paragraphs from robert jastrow ' s
toward an intelligence beyond man ' s
:
a leading swedish newspaper editor who staunchly opposed hitler ' s fascism and his own nation ' s neutrality during wwii is the subject of jan troell ' s
the last sentence .
at last the emperor stopped beside his last partner ( he had danced with three ) and the music ceased .
he stood and tossed the last bite into his mouth , washing it down with the last of his milk .
in quoting this sentence , you would need to identify whom the pronoun she refers to . you can do this inside the quotation by using brackets :
the last made me realize the great disappointment to the dear child more than before .
ultimately , the last sentence , despite the great performances and awesome visuals , gets too preoccupied with its own interpersonal drama and soap opera dynamics , eventually forgetting to address some of the bigger moral implications it hints at .
the regiment passed through the village and stacked its arms in front of the last huts .
“the execution of the death sentence cannot be done while this court is hearing the appeal . else , it will be a violation of the vienna convention , ” lead attorney harish salve said .
jan : the title is a quotation from the icelandic saga , the hávamál : “your cattle will die , your friends will die , you will die too — but the one thing i know , that will never die , is the judgment of a dead man” — the reputation of a dead man , the last sentence . i like that title very much , because it refers to hitler , segerstedt also uses it in the film in reference to the king , and finally , segerstedt uses it against himself , in judgment of his own life . “dom över död man” means judgment or sentence over a dead man . “the last sentence” has a double meaning .
for mr . quijada , a student at gavilan college , a community college in gilroy , a lot was riding on the video and his possible sentence .
the messengers went on until they came at last to the island of rhodes .
alex was sitting in their room the last night they were at the hacienda .
■ india demanded the immediate suspension of kulbhushan jadhav’s death sentence , expressing fears that pakistan could execute him even before the hearing at the international court of justice ( icj ) was over .
the last sentence makes for a great companion piece to jan troell ' s 1996 flick hamnsun , but sort of the opposite end of the spectrum . hamsun was about a norwegian novelist ( played by max von sydow speaking in his native swedish tongue for some reason ) who was too stubborn to outright denounce nazism while the last sentence is about a swedish journalist ( played by jesper christensen speaking in his native norwegian tongue for some reason ) who was too stubborn to ease his stance against nazism . the two films are also on their own polars stylistically ; hamsun was traditionally directed and structured , shot in color and has terrible image quality but the last sentence was neatly…
“the last sentence , ” a biographical drama about swedish newspaper editor torgny segerstedt ( 1876 - 1945 ) , exists for two equally valid reasons : its subject’s honorable public actions and his semi - tawdry personal life .
the agonizing memories ruptured to the surface at last , forcing a long overdue reaction .
using brackets use square brackets whenever you need to add or substitute words in a quoted sentence . the brackets indicate to the reader a word or phrase that does not appear in the original passage but that you have inserted to avoid confusion . for example , when a pronoun ' s antecedent would be unclear to readers , delete the pronoun from the sentence and substitute an identifying word or phrase in brackets . when you make such a substitution , no ellipsis marks are needed . assume that you wish to quote the bold - type sentence in the following passage :
though “the last sentence” was shot digitally , a first for mr . troell , it is also of a piece with his earlier films in a technical sense . like films as far back as “the emigrants” and “the new land , ” “the last sentence” is full of interior scenes that have been shot close - in , with “the richness of depth and detail in every image” that , said andrew nestingen , a professor of scandinavian and cinema studies at the university of washington , characterizes mr . troell’s work .
they then crossed the hollow to semenovsk , where the soldiers were dragging away the last logs from the huts and barns .
the bustle and terror of the rostovs ' last days in moscow stifled the gloomy thoughts that oppressed sonya .
maybe the last situation was what gave her the courage to speak up when the inheritance tension came back .
like any other sentence , a thesis includes a subject and a predicate , which consists of an assertion about the subject . in the sentence
lee and grant were different kinds of generals ,
lee and grant
is the subject and
were different kinds of generals
is the predicate . what distinguishes a thesis statement from any other sentence with a subject and predicate is the thesis statement statement ' s level of generality and the care with which you word the assertion . the subject of a thesis must present the right balance between the general and the specific to allow for a thorough discussion within the allotted length of the paper . the discussion might include definitions , details , comparisons contrasts - whatever is needed to illuminate a subject and carry on an intelligent conversation . ( if the sentence about lee and grant were a thesis , the reader would assume that the rest of the essay contained comparisons and contrasts between the two generals . )
she hung the last garment and changed into jeans and tennis shoes before leaving the house .
the third company was the last , and kutuzov pondered , apparently trying to recollect something .
at last bagration ' s orderly came with the news that the prince could not attend .
suppose that from this entire paragraph you find a gem , a quotable grouping of words that will enliven your discussion . you may want to quote part of the following sentence :
the hague / new delhi : india on monday called for immediate suspension of its national kulbhushan jadhav’s death sentence and accused pakistan of violating the vienna convention by denying its 16 requests for consular access .
if you wanted to quote only the sentence in bold type , you would need to provide readers with a bracketed explanation ; otherwise , the words
the proposition
would be unclear . here is how you would manage the quotation :
though the youth at last grows indifferent , the laws of the universe are not indifferent , but are forever on the side of the most sensitive .
he managed to follow only the last words of the statutes and these remained in his mind .
it was the last spiritual struggle between life and death , in which death gained the victory .
men esteem truth remote , in the outskirts of the system , behind the farthest star , before adam and after the last man .
neutrality and appeasement are the tenets that most people associate with sweden and its citizens during the second world war . the last sentence , a biopic from preeminent swedish director jan troell , shines the spotlight on one of sweden’s iconoclastic heroes of that time , torgny segerstedt , a journalist and editor who used the power of the pen and press to alert his countrymen of the dangers of hitler and nazism . while segerstedt is a well - known figure to swedes who experienced the second world war first - hand , were it not for the film the last sentence , segerstedt might have remained unfamiliar to us here in the united states , as well as to european contemporaries .
if the pronoun you want to identify occurs in the middle of the sentence to be quoted , then you ' ll need to use brackets . newspaper reporters do this frequently when quoting sources , who in interviews might say something like the following :
ten years later , in somalia , the last natural case of smallpox occurred .
we left the city last thursday night , and arrived in brewster friday afternoon .
last night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them .
then , think about how far we have come in the last fifty years .
it would not be the first time , or the last , that ignorance in the world exacted a high price .
incorporating the quotation into the flow of your own sentence once you ' ve selected the passage you want to quote , work the material into your paper in as natural and fluid a manner as possible . here ' s how we would quote hutchins :
he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to get ready to dance in the large hall , and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery .
the first sentence of this conclusion is a summary , and from it the reader can infer that the paper included a discussion of shull ' s techniques for the hybrid breeding of corn . the summary is followed by a two - paragraph discussion on the significance of shull ' s research for feeding the world .
she wandered around the house with a foreboding that this was the last time she would see it .
ah , may the devil take you and evewybody ,
were the last words rostov heard .
this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers who had sheltered in the village houses .
three weeks after the last evening he had spent with the rostovs , prince andrew returned to petersburg .
the conversation was resumed , and no longer in the unpleasantly hostile tone of nicholas ' last remark .
the last time he made a business trip to columbia , he had said they needed the money .
the last word ended on the upturn , as if it were a question , not a statement .
the lanterns were beginning to grow dim , and the wizard poured the remaining oil from one into the other , so that the one light would last longer .
like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship , that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks , carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all .
the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge , squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel .
at last he saw something in the darkness that looked like two balls of fire .
in fact , she had spent the last two weeks wallowing in self - pity .
our last halt was under a wild cherry tree a short distance from the house .
i often think of the pleasant time we had all together in boston last spring .
surely we shall all find at last the ideals we are seeking . . . .
they plucked me last night , came denisov ' s voice from the next room .
after an hour ' s delay they at last moved on , descending the hill .
after many consultations and conversations , the count at last devised means to tranquillize her .
the phrases in italics are called appositives . their function is to rename the nouns they follow by providing explicit , identifying detail . any information about a person that can be expressed in the following sentence pattern can be made into an appositive phrase :
i had an opportunity to speak with the charming jan troell and his aspiring filmmaker daughter johanna at the king george hotel , san francisco , where they were staying when troell was being honored by the mill valley film festival in 2013 , for the u . s premieres of the last sentence and johanna’s documentary portrait of her father , a close scrutiny .
here follows the last part , beginning with the great day , april 5th , when helen learned water .
at last she got up , gave me the mug , and led me out of the door to the pump - house .
she was cleaning the coffee pot and alex was reclining in a chair at the table , enjoying the last cup of coffee .
at a screening of the film in copenhagen last year , an audience member asked mr . troell if any modern public figure reminded him of segerstedt , and the director replied yes , edward snowden . asked about that , he mentioned scenes in “the last sentence” in which segerstedt is warned by the swedish prime minister and even king gustav v that his actions damage the national interest , but he nevertheless insists on following his conscience .
the other , from the countess , described their last days in moscow , their departure , the fire , and the destruction of all their property .
■ pakistan is preparing a strategy to “forcefully” defend its position before the international court of justice ( icj ) over the death sentence given to indian national kulbhushan jadhav by its military court on charges of “spying” , a media report said .
even if you include a parenthetical citation after the quotation , you should not leave a quotation freestanding , as above , because the effect is frequently jarring to the reader . introduce the quotation by attributing the source in some other part of the sentence - beginning , middle , or end . thus , you could write :
i also have an offer to work at the law office where i worked last summer .
while the grand master said these last words it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed .
as ' twas growing dark last night fell the snow so soft and light . . .
pushing the thought from her mind , she focused on allen ' s visit last night .
last summer i spent in one of the loveliest nooks of one of the most charming villages in new england .
and the troops retired one more , last , day ' s march , and abandoned moscow to the enemy .
princess mary , evidently engrossed by her thoughts , was crossing herself for the last time before leaving the church .
during the last few days many of the men have been seen to throw away their cartridges and their arms .
as april slipped into may and the last threat of frost passed , she began planting them in the garden .
on the last day , the great army which coriolanus had led from antium was drawn up in battle array .
granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements .
the lower stakes cracked more and more and at last the wall fell , and with it the men who had been pushing it .
jim , who was in advance , saw the last stair before him and stuck his head above the rocky sides of the stairway .
i was in the north , enjoying the last beautiful days of the summer of 1896 , when i heard the news of my father ' s death .
kutuzov alone at last gains a real victory , destroying the spell of the invincibility of the french , and the minister of war does not even care to hear the details .
the last backwash of the movement from the west occurs : a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history .
set amidst the political turmoil of wwii - era sweden , the last sentence tells the extraordinary story of torgny segerstedt , a journalist who embarked on a one - man crusade against hitler . bravely challenging the nazis , and his own government’s policy of neutrality , segerstedt ( jesper christensen ) , editor - in - chief of a major newspaper , fought a literal life - and - death battle over the fate of sweden . at the same time , segerstedt’s uncompromising nature led to an equally tumultuous private life , involving a scandalous love affair that crippled his family and ultimately led to tragedy . directed by swedish master jan troell , the last sentence is a complex and gripping , warts - and - all account of the man and the hero .
whenever you quote a sentence but delete words from it , as we have done , indicate this deletion to the reader by placing an ellipsis mark , three spaced periods , in the sentence at the point of deletion . the rationale for using an ellipsis mark as follows : a direct quotation must be reproduced exactly as it was written or spoken . when writers delete or change any part of the quoted material , readers must be alerted so they don ' t think that the changes were part of the original . ellipsis marks and brackets serve this purpose .
when the troops reached their night ' s halting place on the eighth of november , the last day of the krasnoe battles , it was already growing dusk .
at last , just as the blacksmith was in the midst of a stirring song , he rose quietly and went out into the darkness .
military heroes of the last several centuries , such as the aforementioned lafayette and hamilton and travis , were not bloodthirsty .
i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run over ,
anna pavlovna continued .
of the three objects mentioned by the rhetor , this last , that of improving mankind , especially appealed to pierre .
lawyers are beginning to submit biographical videos when their clients are sentenced , and proponents say they could transform the process . defendants and their lawyers already are able to address the court before a sentence is imposed , but the videos are adding a new dimension to the punishment phase of a prosecution .
her father wrote to her last summer that the birds and bees were eating all his grapes .
the last weeks passed in her mother ' s bedroom had strained natasha ' s physical strength .
certainly , you don ' t want the whole world to know where you were last night .
at last the sleigh bore to the right , drew up at an entrance , and rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off , the porch , and the post by the side of the pavement .
pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in petersburg .
when eureka ' s captor had thrown the kitten after the others the last gargoyle silently disappeared , leaving our friends to breathe freely once more .
well performed and educational film about journalist torgny segerstedt , who wrote provocative anti - hitler articles during the second world war , thus endangering the neutrality of the swedish nation . based on a biography the last sentence is likely to be quite accurate in its portrayal , hence a very good source for educating yourself in the political climate of the 1940 : s . this fact , in combination with the solid auteurship of troell , constitutes the main value if this award winning film .
when the train at last pulled into the station at boston it was as if a beautiful fairy tale had come true .
the point is that it is now illegal in every state , with louisiana being the last to outlaw it in 2008 .
the russian troops were passing through moscow from two o ' clock at night till two in the afternoon and bore away with them the wounded and the last of the inhabitants who were leaving .
after one last look around to see if she was being watched , she started into the woods .
in the last thirty years there has not been a single smallpox death or even a single infection .
i received the letter which you wrote to me last summer , and i thank you for it .
this is the first opportunity i have had to write to you since we came here last monday .
not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son ' s handwriting .
this is the last great day !
cried others ; and they knelt down and waited .
that last evening was so delightful that the boy will never forget it as long as he lives .
their telephone conversation last night concluded with the decision that connie would pick her up at the end of the drive today at 11 : 30 am .
notice how this call for further study locates the author in a large community of researchers on whom she depends for assistance in answering the questions that have come out of her own work . the author summarizes her findings ( in the first sentence of the paragraph ) , states what her work has not shown , and then extends her invitation .
i told morino last night that i would look at them before we left .
at a quarter past ten they at last got into their carriages and started .
when left alone at last he opened and read his wife ' s letter .
it was last sunday they took me , out of a hospital in moscow .
as the garage door lifted , sunlight reflected off the polish she and her siblings had applied that last day of their lives .
i am going to use this with the eal children in my class to reinforce the concept of first and last in maths .
the last act affected us most deeply , and we all wept , wondering how the executioner could have the heart to tear the king from his loving wife ' s arms .
it was probably the last thing he expected to hear , and yet , he knew it was true .
she killed three of my lambs last night ,
said the one whose name was david brown .
no face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth .
as she picked up one of his shirts , she smelled the same odor she had smelled last night .
she did not even cry when , on taking leave , he kissed her hand for the last time .
at last , far in the east , he came to a land of which he had never heard .
the last were not england ' s best men and women ; only , perhaps , her best philanthropists .
one man still preserves the horns of the last deer that was killed in this vicinity , and another has told me the particulars of the hunt in which his uncle was engaged .
the squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar , and occasionally stepped upon my shoe , when that was the nearest way .
he was conducted from that room along passages that turned backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the lodge .
mind , the last . . . concluded the prince , in a tone which showed that nothing would make him alter his decision .
as he prepared to sentence mr . chatwal , judge i . leo glasser said he had watched the video twice , including once the night before . the judge , echoing some of the themes in the video , recounted mr . chatwal’s good works . judge glasser then sentenced mr . chatwal to probation , much less than the four to five years in prison that prosecutors had requested .
sophia : there is a scene in the last sentence where marcus wallenberg , of the prominent wallenberg family , mentions that he has been approached by a german friend to encourage a big swedish paper to write about the harassment of jews in germany . marcus comments that “there are excellent jews in sweden , but that is not the case in germany . if the jews were exterminated , the country would lose good will . no foreign debtors would have their debts repaid . ”
jan troell ' s latest film the last sentence is the story about torgny segerstedt , a swedish news editor who was known for his strong criticism of adolf hitler before the outbreak of the war . his strong opposition towards nazi germany was met with great concerns from the government , who thought segerstedt was threatening the swedish neutrality . and at one point his life was in danger . but as the war came to an end , he was regarded as a hero and a defender of free speech .
at a little distance from the palace we might easily mistake it for a mountain whose peaks were mounting heavenward to receive the last kiss of the departing day .
two were misdirected and the shot went too high , but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of them over .
then a place was assigned to pierre , he was shown the signs of the lodge , told the password , and at last was permitted to sit down .
at last a ship happened to pass that way and robinson was taken on board .
he died last saturday at my home in tuscumbia , and i was not there .
having gone nearly three miles he at last met an acquaintance and eagerly addressed him .
as you , dear reader , are about to realize , if i was to make a film about the last sentence in a journalism article , then it would be about as long as the usual jan troell film . troell must have had his own issues with writing on this project if the final product came out under , what , three hours or so , but no matter how dramatic the title is about a single sentence , the lead ' s issue is by no means writer ' s block . you couldn ' t keep this journalist from understandably running his mouth about how bad the nazis are , which was kind of easy to do when you were living in one of the few countries in europe that hitler didn ' t assault…
mr . troell , who is about to turn 83 , has vivid personal memories of the war years . “the last sentence” was shot in black and white , in part to evoke the newsreels he remembers seeing as a child , and as an 8 - year - old he was even evacuated from his hometown , malmo , after the nazi seizure of norway and denmark , when it appeared that sweden might also be invaded .
but “the last sentence” is also timely , ms . lindqvist said , because it is part of an “accounting or reckoning with the past , ” specifically the true nature of nordic involvement in world war ii , underway in recent years . “troell is often called a film poet because his cinematography is so striking , ” she said , “but at the same time , he gives us an artistic spin on deeply political material . ”
the soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines , the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men , poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up .
segerstedt’s brave , sometimes heedless rhetoric brought death threats at home and put him at the top of the nazis’ hitlist for postwar reprisal . but the larger events that background “the last sentence” are relegated in visual terms to brief archival newsreel clips , and auds are not afforded any direct exposure to the swedish public that segerstedt’s vehement sentiments roiled . instead , the pic stays almost entirely shut up in the rooms where segerstedt interacted with peers or lived a somewhat messy personal life that gets far too much attention here .
it looked as if nature no longer contained the breed of nobler bloods , but stood on her last toes .
ah , it can ' t be avoided !
thought nicholas , for the first and last time .
but the countess would not agree to his going ; he had had a bad leg all these last days .
after the last two days spent in solitude and unusual circumstances , pierre was in a state bordering on insanity .
after them other couples followed , filling the whole dining hall , and last of all the children , tutors , and governesses followed singly .
when they had gone by , the same stream of soldiers followed , with the same kind of talk , and at last all stopped .
at last an old , cross looking footman came and announced to the rostovs that the prince was not receiving , but that the princess begged them to walk up .
listening to the story of the struggle between love and duty , pierre saw before his eyes every minutest detail of his last meeting with the object of his love at the sukharev water tower .
anatole , with uniform unbuttoned , walked to and fro from the room where the witnesses were sitting , through the study to the room behind , where his french valet and others were packing the last of his things .
for i came to town still , like a friendly indian , when the contents of the broad open fields were all piled up between the walls of the walden road , and half an hour sufficed to obliterate the tracks of the last traveller .
from “high noon” to “silkwood” and “the insider , ” the courageous loner who stands up to evil at great personal risk is a familiar film figure . now the swedish master jan troell has added to that gallery with “the last sentence , ” his portrait of torgny segerstedt , a swedish newspaper editor who was an early , ferocious and persistent critic of hitler , defying both nazi threats and his own government’s pleas not to undermine its neutral stance .
but “ the last sentence , ” which opens friday , is anything but a hagiography . the rectitude and fearlessness of segerstedt’s public stances contrasted sharply with a messy and conflicted private life , which mr . troell also mines : segerstedt was haunted by his mother’s early death , treated his wife with indifference , even cruelty , and flaunted his relationship with a morphine - addicted mistress who was the wife of his closest friend .
one of the last of the philosophers - - connecticut gave him to the world - - he peddled first her wares , afterwards , as he declares , his brains .
range after range of mountains began with a mixture of sharp green that gradually faded until the last range was wrapped in the haze of distance .
his health was better in the winter , but last spring his wound reopened and the doctor said he ought to go away for a cure .
it comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter i have used figures which will turn the laugh against me .
our friends were greatly surprised to see us , as they had not expected us before the last of this month .
at last sleep surprised me , and when miss sullivan returned she found me wrapped in a blanket by the hearth .
he mustered his last remaining strength , took hold of his left hand with his right , and reached the bushes .
at last we have a man ! said he , glancing sternly and significantly round at everyone in the drawing room .
among the old guard disorder and pillage were renewed more violently than ever yesterday evening , last night , and today .
taken together , those findings suggest that almost all economic growth in the last 120 - plus years was from technology .
it has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass ; and beyond there is a different country .
all kinds of artists have come and gone in the last four centuries , popular in their time but forgotten now .
the morning had been fine , but it was growing warm and sultry when at last we turned our faces homeward .
this makes sense , so she spends her last $ 2000 in savings to buy ads .
but i must not forget that i was going to write about last summer in particular .
his face looked sad , and he had grown still stouter since natasha last saw him .
at last i fell asleep with a new doll and a white bear in my arms .
a leading swedish newspaper editor who staunchly opposed hitler’s fascism and his own nation’s neutrality during wwii is the subject of jan troell’s “the last sentence . ” this biographical drama , shot in crisp black - and - white , offers a potentially intriguing study in high - minded political / moral obstinacy , but feels too claustrophobic — and , finally , tediously like a one - man window on [ … ]
the skin of a woodchuck was freshly stretched upon the back of the house , a trophy of his last waterloo ; but no warm cap or mittens would he want more .
and , in fact , the last letter he had received from mack ' s army informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the army was very favorable .
qui s ' excuse s ' accuse ,
* said julie , smiling and waving the lint triumphantly , and to have the last word she promptly changed the subject .
this last sentence is our thesis for this section . based on this thesis , we , as the authors , have limited the content of the section ; and you , as the reader , will be able to form certain expectations about the discussion that follows . you can expect a definition of a thesis statement ; an enumeration of the uses of a thesis statement ; and a discussion focused on academic material . as writers , we will have met our obligations to you only if in subsequent paragraphs we satisfy these expectations .
the few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good - natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design .
but at last his army was beaten ; his men were scattered ; and tamerlane fled alone from the field of battle .
helen has learned to tell the time at last , and her father is going to give her a watch for christmas .
selivanov , now , did a good stroke last thursday - - sold flour to the army at nine rubles a sack .
haven ' t you robbed people enough - - taking their last shirts ?
said a voice addressing the publican .
that was the last thing she remembered until she opened her eyes again and found all three of them hanging over her .
after receiving communion and unction he quietly died ; and next day a throng of acquaintances who came to pay their last respects to the deceased filled the house rented by the rostovs .
she has nearly finished colburn ' s mental arithmetic , her last work being in improper fractions .
pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend ' s company and at last became silent .
in those last moments when it was too late , she had decided to go with them .
throughout a career that spans more than 50 years , mr . troell has shown a predilection for what today are somewhat dismissively called biopics . “the last sentence” is based on kenne fant’s biography of segerstedt , and mr . troell’s credits include films about figures as celebrated as knut hamsun , the nobel prize - winning novelist from norway arrested on charges of treason after world war ii , or as obscure , at least in the united states , as the early swedish aviator elsa andersson .
again , perhaps , nature will try , with me for a first settler , and my house raised last spring to be the oldest in the hamlet .
at last he rose , kissed the icon as a child does with naively pouting lips , and again bowed till he touched the ground with his hand .
i had made my homeward journey , talking constantly to miss sullivan , not for the sake of talking , but determined to improve to the last minute .
mr . von sydow has appeared in seven of mr . troell’s films , and was offered the lead in “the last sentence , ” but declined , according to mr . troell , because , at 85 , he felt “he was too old . ” but mr . christensen has also recently been part of mr . troell’s de facto repertory company , having appeared in mr . troell’s previous film “ everlasting moments ” from 2009 .
a little later , when the rush and heat of achievement relax , we can begin to expect the appearance of grand men to celebrate in glorious poetry and prose the deeds and triumphs of the last few centuries .
at last the conversation gradually settled on some of the topics at first lightly touched on : their past life , plans for the future , pierre ' s journeys and occupations , the war , and so on .
sonya stood ready dressed in the middle of the room and , pressing the head of a pin till it hurt her dainty finger , was fixing on a last ribbon that squeaked as the pin went through it .
at the last post station before otradnoe he gave the driver a three - ruble tip , and on arriving he ran breathlessly , like a boy , up the steps of his home .
rostov and ilyin gave rein to their horses for a last race along the incline before reaching bogucharovo , and rostov , outstripping ilyin , was the first to gallop into the village street .
i deem it my duty to report to your majesty the condition of the various corps i have had occasion to observe during different stages of the last two or three days ' march .
in the 1968 book the lessons of history , will and ariel durant calculated that ,
in the last 3 , 421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war .
and yet over the last century , we also have seen colonies gain their independence and become nations , and nations peaceably divide .
there is a tradition that under this tree king philip , the heroic indian chief , gazed his last on earth and sky .
do you think he can last till morning ?
asked the german , addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly .
torgny segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in sweden in the 20th century . he fought a one man battle against hitler and the nazi regime until his death in 1945 and during these tumultuous times his private life was marked by a world in chaos , as he falls in love with his friend ' s wife while married himself . the last sentence weaves together the story of a psychological love story with a portrayal of the political situation sweden found itself in during the second world war . a gripping , dramatic and poetic tale about a man , who could not be silenced .
to clear up this last point for himself , prince andrew , utilizing his position and acquaintances , tried to fathom the character of the control of the army and of the men and parties engaged in it , and he deduced for himself the following of the state of affairs .
it was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for natasha , and a last , though ultimately vanquished , attack of terror before the unknown .
last year , my second year at radcliffe , i studied english composition , the bible as english composition , the governments of america and europe , the odes of horace , and latin comedy .
at austerlitz he remained last at the augezd dam , rallying the regiments , saving what was possible when all were flying and perishing and not a single general was left in the rear guard .
oh , my dear fellow , we ' re in such a stew here these last two days .
since prince andrew had last seen him kutuzov had grown still more corpulent , flaccid , and fat .
a leading swedish newspaper editor who staunchly opposed hitler’s fascism and his own nation’s neutrality during wwii is the subject of jan troell’s “the last sentence . ” this biographical drama , shot in crisp black - and - white , offers a potentially intriguing study in high - minded political / moral obstinacy , but feels too claustrophobic — and , finally , tediously like a one - man window on great events — to fully come to dramatic life . lacking the greater emotional breadth and accessibility of the esteemed helmer’s last feature , “everlasting moments , ” this dry swedish history lesson will have a harder time finding offshore takers .
jan troell ' s the last sentence tells the story of torgny segerstedt ( jesper christensen ) , the former newspaper editor in sweden , where he spent more than a decade of his wartime tenure penning editorials lambasting nazi germany and the neutrality of the swedish government . the film ' s original title is dom över död man , or judgment of the dead man , which seems appropriate given the unusual emphasis throughout on legacies and reputations . toward the end of his life , segerstedt ' s chief concern seems to be how he will be remembered by the world , and much of the film is dedicated to indulging his reflections upon the value of his contributions to history . ( it ' s perhaps worth pointing out here that troell himself , an elder statesman…
will there be a war ?
one character asks segerstedt as the nazi threat grows .
there is war ,
segerstedt replies , calmly . one of the refreshing things about this character is how he makes a big noise while never actually raising his voice . while the movie may be too concerned with immediate swedish concerns to make what american viewers would consider a
universal
statement ,
the last sentence
nevertheless is a remarkably full - bodied and frank character study that illuminates the old saw about the political being personal in a genuinely unusual way .
torgny segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in sweden in the 20th century . he fought a one man battle against hitler and the nazi regime until his death in 1945 and during these tumultuous times his private life was marked by a world in chaos , as he falls in love with his friend ' s wife while married himself . the last sentence weaves together the story of a psychological love story with a portrayal of the political situation sweden found itself in during the second world war . a gripping , dramatic and poetic tale about a man , who could not be silenced . written by filmlance international
he had often before , during the last six weeks , remained alone with her , but had never spoken to her of love .
both had changed greatly since they last met and both were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them .


the woman who loved elvis is an american television film that aired on abc on april 18 , 1993 from 9:00 to 11:00 pm eastern time .

the film starred roseanne barr , her then husband tom arnold , it also starred cynthia gibb , danielle harris , and sally kirkland .

it was filmed in ottumwa , iowa , where arnold was born .

based on laura kalpakian 's novel " graced land " .

the woman who loved elvis

tom arnold , oafishly likable , is the only one who comes out of this thing alive . they should have made it “the man who loved the woman who loved elvis . ” but then who would have watched ?
roseanne and elvis , together at last ! abc’s kitschy , maudlin hound dog of a telepic , “the woman who loved elvis , ” is a white - trash double whammy that the fans — his and hers — will doubtless lap up .
obviously , the woman who loved elvis has problems . “when dad moved out , elvis moved in ! ” screams one of her resentful kids . but the concept is that even if everyone thinks she’s the town kook , she’s really its savior , a big hunka burnin’ love who’s better than all of ’em put together .
roseanne and elvis , together at last ! abc ' s kitschy , maudlin hound dog of a telepic ,
the woman who loved elvis ,
is a white - trash double whammy that the fans - - his and hers - - will doubtless lap up .
roseanne barr is one of my favorite comediens and she is in her sarcastic corny self as the woman who loved elvis . this movie is not award winning , but it helps you get through the day with a laugh or two !
roseanne and elvis , together at last ! abc’s kitschy , maudlin hound dog of a telepic , “the woman who loved elvis , ” is a white - trash double whammy that the fans — his and hers — will doubtless lap up . exec produced by joined - at - the - hip roseanne and tom arnold ( with jack grossbart and joan barnett ) , “woman” is set and shot [ … ]
by any normal standard , the woman who loved elvis is a pretty lousy made - for - television movie . but who judges roseanne arnold by normal standards ? as the brashest and most original and independent superstar on tv , arnold is unusual in many ways , not the least of which is that she is a hollywood multimillionaire who insists that we never forget her drab , lower - middle - class roots .
and so it is in the woman who loved elvis : arnold portrays joyce jackson , a single mother in a small iowa town who is stuck on welfare and saddled with a serious elvis problem . joyce has turned her dilapidated front porch into a shrine to the late presley and is given to solemn pronouncements such as ”elvis died for the love of us and our love for him . ” joyce has just been assigned a new caseworker from the welfare agency , a wide - eyed innocent named emily ( cynthia gibb of the karen carpenter story ) , who , unlike joyce’s previous caseworkers , doesn’t think she’s just a lazy nut .
for most scriptwriters and performers elvis is a joke , a dead punch line employed in movies like honeymoon in vegas . arnold knows that one reason her sitcom roseanne commands such a huge , loyal audience is that she shares many of her fans’ taste in unfashionable subjects like presley . but the woman who loved elvis doesn’t shed any new light on arnold’s own obsession .
in interviews over the years , arnold has spoken often of her admiration for presley as an up - from - nothing , show - biz - transcending star ; she identifies with him to the extent of having worn an elvis - esque gold lame suit for her 1992 hbo stand - up special . in the woman who loved elvis , arnold sets up joyce to be a fanatic who will prove to have wisdom ; we assume her purpose is to redeem joyce and elvis to doubters . instead , the movie downplays presley as it goes along , reducing his presence to a few hits on the soundtrack .
the woman who loved elvis is based on laura kalpakian’s 1992 novel , graced land ; it’s not the elvis book arnold should have tackled . that one is harlan ellison’s 1961 presley fable , spider kiss , a far more wild , down - and - dirty novel that tells the tale of stag preston , a country - hick rocker raised to superstardom by callous promoter col . jack freeport ( an on - the - money caricature of presley’s manager , col . tom parker ) . i have long thought roseanne could buy the rights , turn the hero into a woman , and play the role herself ( doe preston ? ) . hubby tom could chomp on a cigar and strut around as colonel jack . maybe next time , roseanne ? c +
urltoken woman who loved elvis : roseanne barr , tom arnold , cynthia gibb , sally kirkland , danielle harris , joe guzaldo , kimberly dal santo , monica mccarthy , liz muckley , james andelin , dottie arnold , w . earl brown , bill bixby , cyrus yavneh , jack grossbart , joan barnett , laura marcus , laura kalpakian , rita mae brown : movies & tv
anita wood telling why her and elvis presley broke - up after five years .
it’s supposed to be about a woman named joyce , immortalized in laura kalpakian’s novel “graced land” as a single mother whose home and life have become a shrine to the memory of the the king . but it ends up feeling like another dysfunctional evening with the arnolds .
i absolutely loved this movie . i myself am from ottumwa iowa where the film was shot . i guess that made it all the more wonderful . roseanne does a great job , as well as ms .
emily gets drawn into the lives of joyce , her two adolescent daughters ( danielle harris and kimberley dal santo ) , and her ex - husband , jack , a brooding , quiet motorcyclist played by a cast - way - against - type tom arnold ( the jackie thomas show ) . the most interesting thing about the woman who loved elvis , directed by actor bill bixby , is that for the longest time , you can’t tell whether it’s supposed to be a melancholy comedy or a light drama — it doesn’t fit into any standard tv - movie category . the worst thing about the film , written by novelist rita mae brown ( rubyfruit jungle ) , is that there’s not a single scene in it whose outcome isn’t drearily predictable .
exec produced by joined - at - the - hip roseanne and tom arnold ( with jack grossbart and joan barnett ) , “woman” is set and shot in the heart of arnold country ( ottumwa , iowa ) .
kind of
corny
but i loved it . . . . love roseanne & tom , i guess that ' s why .
oddest and most disappointing of all is that the elvis angle gets lost in all the banality . for joyce , as for not a few of his fans , the king is nothing less than the king of kings . ”drugs were part of his suffering , ” joyce says to a skeptic who questions the saintliness of presley’s life , ”and no one could save him from suffering . ” joyce even does good works in his name : poor as she is , she mends old clothes to give to families poorer than her own , presenting them with the benediction , ”elvis presley wants you to have these clothes . ”
* * the elvis songs at the beginning and at 56 : 01 had to be edited for copyright * * in 1982 , iowan suburban housewife joyce jackson ( rosanne ) is an obsessed fan of the late elvis presley . she ' s used the so - called king of rock and roll ' s inspiration to turn her small house into a wacky shrine . convinced that elvis is still alive , five years after his death , joyce concocts a plan to set off and find and meet him , so she enlists the help of her estranged husband jack ( tom arnold ) .
rita mae brown’s script isgooey and dumb . director bill bixby does what he can with the dopey material . strangely , the music is underplayed : a few elvis songs in the background and a lot of “roseanne” - style bluesy guitar riffs in william olvis’ score .
canta , luan - love me tender + suspicious mind ( elvis presley ) - 23 . 08 . 2017 # pr04x05
danielle harris , who plays the daughter of roseanne ' s character in this film , played molly , her daughter darlene ' s friend , on tv ' s
roseanne
.
unfortunately , although as an actress roseanne arnold has many qualities , lovable is not of them . ( sally kirkland , who plays joyce’s best friend sandee , might have been able to pull off the role . )
in 1982 , iowan suburban housewife joyce jackson ( roseanne ) is an obsessed fan of the late elvis presley . she ' s used the so - called king of rock and roll ' s inspiration to turn her small house . . . see full summary »
in 1982 , iowan suburban housewife joyce jackson ( roseanne ) is an obsessed fan of the late elvis presley . she ' s used the so - called king of rock and roll ' s inspiration to turn her small house into a wacky shrine . convinced that elvis is still alive , five years after his death , joyce concocts a plan to set off and find and meet him , so she enlists the help of her estranged husband jack ( tom arnold ) .
i do ! . . . . this is a fun family film about a character who is a big elvis presley fan and wants to do charitable work in his name , this was roseanne ' s second try at a t . v . movie of the week , her first one titled backfield in motion ( also on vhs ) which i found more entertaining but this one was just as enjoyable and is a great vhs for any fan ot the domestic goddess
trippy indie madeline ' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
we know from the start that the plot will turn on whether or not joyce will be kicked off the welfare roll . and because jack is such a poutingly sensitive working - class stiff , we get the idea pretty quickly that he regrets the breakup of his marriage to joyce , that he wishes they were still together . the supporting characters don’t provide much novelty either . sally kirkland , who has also appeared on a few episodes of roseanne this season , plays joyce’s tough , wisecracking best friend , sandee . and there’s a stunningly lame subplot about emily’s rocky romance with a coworker ( joe guzaldo ) .
this movie had its ups and downs . some of the acting was good but the downside was that the story line wasn ' t very gripping . it was an ordinary film but i would reccomend it when watching with kids .
joyce ( roseanne arnold ) is a welfare mother famous for abusing the system and making a healthy undeclared income on the side . her new caseworker emily ( cynthia gibb ) is a naive cutie who befriends joyce and turns a blind eye to her shenanigans . joyce’s estranged husband jack ( tom arnold ) rides in and out of her life on his motorcycle .
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he still cares about her and their daughters priscilla ( danielle harris , from “roseanne” ) and lisa marie ( kimberly dal santo ) , but has taken up with the town floozie .
this is a feel good movie . i am from south east iowa and most people are loving and thoughtful . joyce [ rosanna ] is the same way my sister and i are . my sister is the poorest person i know and she would give the coat of her back to someone that needed it , and have seen her do it . this movie met alot more to me than just a movie . if more people were like joyce and my sister nancy this world would be a better place . watch this movie and learn from it .
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i got this for my mother - in - law . she was going with tom arnold ' s brother at the time , and it was filmed in ottumwa , ia , where tom is from . she loves this movie . don ' t know why .
production : filmed by wapello county prods . in association with grossbart / barnett prods . executive producers , tom and roseanne arnold , joan barnett , jack grossbart producer , cyrus yahvneh ; director , bill bixby ; writer , rita mae brown , from the book
graced land
by laura kalpakian .
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with : cast : roseanne arnold , tom arnold , sally kirkland , cynthia gibb , danielle harris , joe guzaldo , kimberly dal santo , liz muckley , monica mccarthy , james andelin , dottie arnold , w . earl brown , patrick clear , sam derence , john duda , albert flores , marilyn dodd frank , jeremy jones , catherine matt , sarah schrantz , rick snyder , catherine spears , cody . .
crew : camera , ronald m . lautore ; editor , jay scherberth ; production designer , okowita ; sound , jacob goldstein ; music , william olvis .
cast : cast : roseanne arnold , tom arnold , sally kirkland , cynthia gibb , danielle harris , joe guzaldo , kimberly dal santo , liz muckley , monica mccarthy , james andelin , dottie arnold , w . earl brown , patrick clear , sam derence , john duda , albert flores , marilyn dodd frank , jeremy jones , catherine matt , sarah schrantz , rick snyder , catherine spears , cody . .
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i got this for my mother - in - law . she was going . . .
i watched it on hbo , and i thought this was an alright movie , it showed how families stick together . . .
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