A 1989 Swedish film that received its US home-video release in 1997, THE WOMEN ON THE ROOF is about an innocent damsel who becomes involved with a sophisticated woman of the world. What begins as a fairly light and sedately racy game of sexual tag winds up as a horrifying cautionary tale
of child molestation and slavery.
In Stockholm on the eve of WWI, two young women move into adjoining apartments. Linnea (Amanda Ooms) takes a job in a local photo lab. Anna (Helena Bergstrom), her much more worldly neighbor, sets up a photographer's studio in her loft. Subsequently, Anna persuades Linnea to steal photo plates
from work, pose in the nude, become her business pa...
Released:
1989
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins