Don’t Count Me Out!

This is a film about Maria, a beautiful actress and loving single mother of a little child, who in her early 40’s gets the diagnosis ALS – an incurable, deadly disease. This is a film about not giving up and always believing in miracles, no matter how bad the odds get.

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From shortly after she gets the diagnosis to the present, we follow Maria in her struggle. She decides to overcome the disease and tries every possible way to get well. She promises to keep on working and to stay in this life as long as possible! In the middle of her struggle she very unexpectedly meets love.
Jonas, a tall and handsome man with a light version of MS, is taken by Maria’s strong personality and they start to plan for a life together. It’s spring, they get engaged and a church is booked. But time and disease mercilessly goes on and as Maria gets worse, Jonas hesitates and the wedding is indefinitely postponed. It’s not working out with her assistants and Maria is feeling that she’s loosing contact with her son. She’s frustrated but she won’t give up.

“Don’t count me out”, she says hardly audible, ”I’ll make a theatre play, I’ll write a book, I’ll fight until I get the help I need!” Still hoping. Still believing that she through some miracle will get well.

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Genre…………………………………………… Creative documentary
Length……………………………………………Feature
Director…………………………………………..Karin Wegsjö
Producer…………………………………………Per Janérus

THE PRODUCTION COMPANY Harmonica Films is a production company based in Stockholm, Sweden, producing feature films, TV-series and documentaries. Harmonica’s first feature 2011’s thriller ”False Trail” was a huge success at the Swedish box office and the most seen Swedish film  of 2011, selling more than 500 000 tickets. ”Don’t count me out!” is right along Harmonica’s vision of producing films of high creative quality.