---
title: 'You, the Living (2007)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Roy Andersson'
released: '2007-05-24'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
  - 'Denmark'
  - 'Sweden'
  - 'Norway'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/you-the-living-2007'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445336/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# You, the Living (2007)

2007 · 94 min · Comedy · Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway

Original title: Du levande

## Synopsis

You, the Living is a 2007 Swedish black comedy-drama film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration of the "grandeur of existence", centered on the lives of a group of individuals, such as an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, and a school teacher with emotional problems and her rug-selling husband. The basis for the film is an Old Norse proverb, "Man is man's delight", taken from the Poetic Edda poem Hávamál. The title comes from a stanza in Goethe's Roman Elegies, which also appears as a title card in the beginning of the film: "Therefore rejoice, you, the living, in your lovely warm bed, until Lethe's cold wave wets your fleeing foot."

## Credits

- **Director:** [Roy Andersson](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-andersson)
- **Screenplay:** [Roy Andersson](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-andersson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Benny Andersson](https://cinepixo.com/people/benny-andersson)
- **Producer:** [Pernilla Sandström](https://cinepixo.com/people/pernilla-sandstrom)
- **Director of Photography:** [Gustav Danielsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-danielsson)
- **Editor:** [Anna Märta Waern](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-marta-waern), [Alexandra Strauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandra-strauss)

## Cast

- [Nils Westblom](https://cinepixo.com/people/nils-westblom)
- [Jessica Lundberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/jessica-lundberg)
- [Jörgen Nohall](https://cinepixo.com/people/jorgen-nohall)
- [Ola Stensson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ola-stensson)
- [Eric Bäckman](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-backman)
- [Bengt C.W. Carlsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/bengt-c-w-carlsson)
- [Jessica Nilsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jessica-nilsson)
- [Jan Wikbladh](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-wikbladh)
- [Patrik Anders Edgren](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrik-anders-edgren)
- [Holger Andersson](https://cinepixo.com/people/holger-andersson)
- [Elisabet Helander](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisabet-helander)
- [Björn Englund](https://cinepixo.com/people/bjorn-englund)

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Official site: http://www.royandersson.com/dulevande/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/you-the-living-2007
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