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Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
P.O Box 24045
104 50 Stockholm
Sweden
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1981

Summary

Sweden, 1981. Married couple Ivar and Pal set out for a gay sauna in anticipation of trying out something new and adding some zest to their rather conventional lifestyle. Together they head for an "etablissement" with specific rules, which might be summed up as "what happens in the sauna, stays in the sauna". They both hope they will leave the place just as besotted with each other as they were when they arrived. 1981 is a film which blends explicit eroticism with fragile love in a tale of everyday life and the kind of excesses one should only treat oneself to once in a while.