The Moon Is a Green Cheese

Månen är en grön ost

A naturalist fantasy in kaleidoscopic colours, as a family holidays in the Stockholm archipelago.

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Ingvar Boman, Christian Berling, Lars Edström, Ewa Fröling, Jill Purce

  • Sweden 1977. 70min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • English subtitles

A naturalist fantasy in kaleidoscopic colours, this challenging film portrays a family in their summer house in the Stockholm archipelago. The two daughters fantasise that they are adults, representing different colours – red, yellow, blue, green, violet, black and indigo. This is director Zetterling’s only children’s film and was inspired by Goethe’s theory of colour.

Contains racial stereotypes including redface and yellowface.