Jan Troell

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

In the decade from 1907 that the based-on-fact story covers, few households possess a camera, but Maria, the struggling wife and mother at the film's centre, wins one in a lottery.

Based on the life of Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt, this black and white biopic follows Segerstedt's one-man battle against Hitler, the Nazi regime and his own country's neutrality.