Synopsis
Like modern times’ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humor and tragedy that is in us, life’s grandeur as well as frailty of humanity.

En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) by Roy Andersson – Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, 101′
language: Swedish – s/t English, Italian
Holger Andersson, Nisse Vestblom

Director’s Statement
En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron consists of everyday and out-of-the ordinary stories portraying our existence in its grandeur and pettiness, beauty and tragedy, exaggeration and sadness—with a panoramic view, as if told by a bird reflecting on the human condition. The pigeon is astonished by the humans—their activities, follies, prides, and agitation, which he tries to make sense of and understand. In the Living Trilogy, of which En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron is the third film, I aim to create a tension between the banal and the essential, the comic and the tragic—to show the dialectic and dynamic nature of existence, while shaping the thought that mankind is potentially heading towards apocalypse, but also that the outcome is in our hands.