Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Booklet available for checkout.

Special features of these DVDs: widescreen presentation ; "Troell behind the camera," a short documentary made during production ; The true story of Maria Larsson, a collection of photographs by Larsson, with narration by writer Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell ; Troell's "Magic mirror," an hour-long documentary on the director's career ; theatrical trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Armond White ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

Film based on a story by Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell.

Directors of photography, Jan Troell, Mischa Gavrjusjov ; music, Matti Bye ; production designer, Peter Bävman ; editor, Niels Pagh Andersen.

Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall, Ghita Nørby, Emil Jensen.

In a working-class neighborhood, in Malmo, Sweden in the early 1900s, live Maria and her husband Sigfrid. Siggie strong and dependable manual laborer who clearly loves and respects his wife, but due to his prodigious philandering and alcohol consumption theirs is--despite a brood of seven--a strained marriage. When Maria attempts to sell a camera they won in a raffle, the curious shopkeeper and photographer Sebastian Pedersen instead teaches her how to use it and gifts her with the chemicals she'll need to develop the pictures. She is surprised by the miracle of catching a moment in time and preserving it in all its wonder, and thereafter, Maria explores the gift of photography. She grows into a woman of substance as she learns a skill, fine-tunes her gaze, and unpretentiously records life in the neighborhood around her

Not rated.

DVD.

Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles.