Simon Staho describes his film as “a tribute to excessive love. To a love that demands sacrifices, scars and gunshot wounds.” It centres on the young, lesbian couple Ida and Karin. Karin wants to face her past, in which her father used to abuse her. Love, death, fear and vengeance are the central themes in this intense, uncompromising drama about a parricide and the dreadful consequences of sexual abuse. The film offers no consolation. Not even to the lovers.

Director: Simon Staho

Screenplay: Peter Asmussen Simon Staho

Cast: Josefin Ljungman Shima Niavarani

Producer: Anne Katrine Andersen

Orig. Titel: Kärlekens Krigare
Section: Agenda 11
Original language: Swedish
Filmtype: Fiction Feature
DoP: Harald Gunnar Paalgard
Editor: Janus Billeskov Jansen
Format: 35 mm

Production Company: XX Film ApS