- Country: Sweden
- Genres: N/A
- Release: 1979-02-24
- Director: Jösta Hagelbäck
- Writers: Jösta Hagelbäck , Sten Holmberg , Birgitta Trotzig
- Language: Swedish
- Stars: Anders Åberg , Bo Lindström , Emy Storm , Peter Lindgren , Jan Jönson , Sigurd Björling , Grazyna Brattander , Folke Broström , Kent-Arne Dahlgren , Jan Dolata
- Runtime: 97 min
- Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination
- AKA: Kejsaren (Sweden) , The Emperor , Cesarz (Poland) , Kejsaren
- Plot: The historical and political background to "Kejsaren" is the Swedish import of foreign polish farm labor in the early 1900s. The Swedish farm workers protested against this, with hate and racism. Elje Ström is the son of a Swedish farm worker and a polish woman. He is mentally handicapped and bullied, longing for his mother, who was returned to Poland. Nazism is spreading over northern Europe. Elje travels to Poland to find his mother. Scammed by pimps and whores, beaten and despised, he is returned to Sweden by the police. He is admitted to S:t Lars mental hospital, Lund/Malmö. Here, at S:t Lars, Elje becomes "Kejsaren", partly influenced by Hitler. He meets with love and understanding from a polish orderly. She looks and feels a lot like his mother. In a fit of psychotic madness, he kills the orderly.
- IMDB:tt0079394
Kejsaren Cast · · · ALL
Jösta Hagelbäck
Director
Anders Åberg
Eije Ström
Bo Lindström
Albin Ström
Tomas Norström
Farmhand
Emy Storm
Gerda
Jan Dolata
The Pimp's helper
Richard Hobert
Farmhand
Bert Sorbon
The Count
Annmari Kastrup
Prologue (voice)
Göte Fyhring
Rectifier
Kent-Arne Dahlgren
Sailor
Peter Lindgren
The Captain
Jan Nygren
Caretaker at St. Lars