The Potato Seller

The Potato Seller

1996 · 48 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta drives tractors, does the planting and harvesting, and helps to maintain the property. Meanwhile her father Johansson worries and wonders if his aging daughter will ever find a man to marry her. Into this tense situation comes Sture, the potato seller,,,

Directed by Lars Molin · Written by Ulla Ekh

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