Download Movie: The Cats

NOTE: ONLY SWEDISH AUDIO, NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Sixteen women have catfights and make love in a sweaty laundry. The closest to a women-in-prison-film ever in Sweden! Marta leads the workers at a laundry. She has ”lesbian tendencies” and is unpopular. Among other things she has ”taken care” of the problem-girl Rike, whom she undressed and gives a shower, after Rike has been out partying.. Rike suggests to the other ”cats”, that Marta has done things to her, that no real woman would do, and that another girl has sent to an asylum because of Marta’s treatment. ”The Cats” accuses Marta, which prompts her to tell them about her painful past: a ”dirty old man” frightened her when she was a girl. Since then she hates men. In West Germany the film got the title ”Verbotene Zärtlichkeiten”, ”Forbidden Displays of Tenderness”. Eva Dahlbeck won a Swedish Academy Award as Best Actress for the film. The cinematography is by Mac Ahlberg, who is now working in Hollywood. He also directed hardcore films in Sweden, like Flossie and Bel Ami. The music in The Cats is by Roman Polanski’s favourite composer Krysztof Komeda.