First air date: Jan 21, 1976
Episode duration: 01h 00m
Rating: (8.1) based on 7 votes
Status: Ended
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
Starring: Sven Wollter, Gurie Nordwall, Viveka Seldahl, Martin Berggren, Evert Lindkvist
Created by: Per Sjöstrand, Vilhelm Moberg
Genre: Drama

The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies.

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