Åke and His World

An adaptation of one of the brightest and most beautiful, albeit frightening stories about children in Swedish literature. The central character is six year-old Åke, a happy child in a happy, playful family. Åke lives in a world of love. Outside there are others who are not so secure and intent on harm---headmaster Godeman for example, who rules his household with military discipline and wields the cane all too easily in the dreadful superstition that corporal punishment leads to good upbringing. (official distributor synopsis)