Godnatt, jord (1979)

Depicts "Statarna", the Swedish agricultural proletarians, set during the early 1900s. An institutionalized brutality of oppression and poverty surrounded by a beautiful and silent countryside. Statarna worked for food and shelter. The system arose in the 1700s and formally abolished in 1945. The novel "Godnatt, jord" (Goodnight, Earth) by Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990) was published 1933.