Elina: As If I Wasn't There

Elina: As If I Wasn't There (Swedish: Elina - Som om jag inte fanns) is a 2002 film directed by Klaus Härö and based on a novel by Kerstin Johansson i Backe. In the 1950s, nine-year-old Elina lives with her younger siblings and her mother in the Torne Valley in the north of Sweden, near the Finnish border. Her father, whom she loved dearly, died of tuberculosis a few years ago. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father. Elina also contracted tuberculosis, but recovered. Because she was ill for so long, Elina is obliged to repeat a whole year at school. However, since she missed so much schooling as a result, she has been put in a new class with a different...