- This is a UK Documentary that details the ups and downs faced by the world known Swedish sensation ABBA. It is part actual footage and part enacted drama. The documentary is filmed from the individual and collective perspective of the 2 female band members 24-year-old Agnetha Fältskog and 29-year-old Anni-Frid Lyngstad.—Paul Imisi
- Partly re enacted by 2 look alike women and ( possibly ) also Benny and Bjorg ? Bravely told all emotional , much of which must have been approved, at least by the 2 women ! Kiss and tell arguments , disagreements , equally from Frida who had a difficult loveless childhood , her one release as an orphan brought up by Grandparents , post her own parents death , was her early love of music which she was always playing vinyls on a record player .Those years left an indelible mark when she had her own children as an undemonstrative bad mother ! Always away at the recording studio until late at night leaving no time for her son or daughter. Meantime Agnetha suffered fan harassment and panic attacks for many years. Australia was a massive financial success and led to life threatening panic which escalated to locking her hotel door refusing to appear in the USA which appearance was cancelled . Tragedy followed them both throughout many years . Both men in the meantime were giving up on their marriages and so it was that both divorced . Agnetha hotel panic was sparked off by their private plane unable to land as planned due to USA hurricane prior to which she burst in to tears due to extreme air flight turbulence , and then locked hotel door a short while later. A few years later Frida's now 30 year old daughter with whom she had now become very close and they expressed mutual love , died in a USA car crash ! A man claiming to be Fridas dead Father who was supposed to have been a Nazi soldier died in the 2nd WW wrote to her multiple times and she never answered him . One day after a few years she decided to answer his letters due to the fact he referred to family names and historical facts which changed her mind, thereby risking to invite him to come to her house for a meeting ! Sure enough about 20 minutes after a very strained introduction he produced exact photo copies of her mother which she had also kept ! Their emotionally charged first ever meeting was a total success and gave them both a new start , Some time later they seemed to have lost touch , albeit I do not know why and later they got together again ? By 1982/3 the group were totally estranged from each other . The 2 men remained in touch, albeit there was no connection between them and the 2 women , who were now also not on speaking terms ! Agnetha was being stalked by an obvious weirdo who she initially spurned and after a few months felt so lonely she started a very unconventional relationship , until one day she realized he was clearly psychologically challenged thereby , against her better judgement as she hated press or public appearances was unsure whether to go ahead with a court case , to which she eventually agreed, resulting in his deportation . When Mama Mia found well earned success, all 4 met up with the as many of the cast as were available, Meryl Streep appears showing her admiration for all 4 of them , big smiles all round . This is a justifiably long film, and this synopsis is really a snippet of the whole docu drama . As emotionally charged , none of it is over dramatized, exaggerated or gossipy . They opened up and pulled no punches .This could only have been made by people with integrity .
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