Figure 1.--Impish Anton Glanzelius as Ingemar charmed movie auduiences in "My Life as a Dog". Ingemar's friend, Saga the tomboy, was beautifull played by Melinda K???.

Ingemar is poised uneasily between childhood and adolescence, just as his namesake, Johanson, is fighting for the heavyweight crown. Director Lasse Hallstrom has Ingemar withstanding life's major setbacks by virtue of his remarkable wit. Someone else, Ingemar invariably opines, has it much, much worse. A wonderful film about childhood. Anton Glanzelius is marvelously mischievous as Ingemar. He has devilish eyebrows and even at 11/12 knows how to use them. He proves to much for his sick mother to handle. He is sent to live with his uncle in the country where he develops a crush on a buxom local woman. Also some nice scenes between Ingemar and his new girl friend, Saga, who is a real tomboy. The movie is set in the 1950s. He wears long pants, but a few of the other boys wear shorts. Seems as though the title had something to do with the boy's fascination with the Russians' having sent Laika, a dog, into orbit in a space capsule in the early days of space exploration.

Created: November 8, 2001
Last updated: November 8, 2001