Four women balancing life and work in turn-of-the-century Stockholm search for respect, opportunity and romance.

Pegg, Baby, Eva and Emmy are four young women holding down office jobs and sharing a rented flat in Norrtull Street. With grace and gentle humour Pegg narrates the story of how the firm friends try to navigate their careers in the male-dominated office culture… The world may be modernising fast, but at their workplace the patriarchy is alive and kicking.

Dir. Per Lindberg | Sweden | 1923 | N/C PG | 1h 26m | Swedish intertitles with English surtitles

With: Tora Teje, Inga Tidblad, Renée Björling, Linnéa Hillberg

Original title: Norrtullsligan

Performing live: John Sweeney

Online programme notes by Pamela Hutchinson 

Screening material courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute

This screening is dedicated to the memory of Graham Wilson (1966-2023) who loved cinema and music, and was an enthusiastic attendee of HippFest for many years.