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- ↑ Scandinavian Film News - Volume 2, Issue 2 1982 - “I wrote The Archer originally in the shape of a novel, but it did not reach the public until it was made into a film." The Archer is a movie about a young man who, guided by a more experienced and wiser man, extricates himself from his previous ...
