Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves
| Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar |
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Adam Lundgren and Adam Pålsson, the lead actors
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| Genre | Drama |
| Based on |
Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar by Jonas Gardell |
| Screenplay by | Jonas Gardell |
| Directed by | Simon Kaijser |
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| Narrated by | Björn Kjellman |
| Theme music composer | Andreas Mattsson |
| Country of origin | Sweden |
| Original language(s) | Swedish |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
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| Producer(s) | Maria Nordenberg |
| Cinematography | Stefan Kullänger |
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| Running time | 174 min |
| Production company(s) | Sveriges Television |
| Distributor | Sveriges Television |
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| Original network | SVT1 |
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| External links | |
| Website | www |
Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (Swedish: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar) is a 2012 three-part Swedish TV drama about the impact of AIDS in 's gay community in the early 1980s. It is based on the Swedish novelist Jonas Gardell's trilogy with the same name, with each episode covering one of the three novels that are subtitled Love, Disease and Death.
The three-part drama was produced by Sveriges Television, and aired the first time on SVT1 on 8, 15 and 22 October 2012.
In September 2013, it was announced that the BBC had bought the series, and the first episode was aired on BBC Four on 2 December 2013 to mark World AIDS Day.
Episode 1, "Love" (Kärleken), focuses on the 19-year-old Rasmus (Adam Pålsson), who after graduation moves from rural Värmland to to attend university. As soon as he arrives in Stockholm he begins to seek out the gay community, where he meets and befriends Paul (Simon J. Berger). At a Christmas dinner party in Paul's apartment he eventually meets Benjamin (Adam Lundgren), a young man who is struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality and faith as a Jehovah's Witness. Interspersed with the main narrative, there are scenes of Rasmus as a child and the dying Rasmus.
An early scene in the episode shows two nurses dressed in heavy-duty bio-protective clothing in the early 1980s caring for a man suffering from AIDS. As the nurses tend the pained man, one nurse wipes a tear from his eye, which leads to the second nurse rebuking her afterwards with the sentence that is the title of the series: "Don't ever wipe tears without gloves", reflecting the fear surrounding AIDS at the time.
Episode 2, "Disease" (Sjukdomen), focuses on the relationship between Rasmus and Benjamin after they have moved in together. AIDS has started to spread among their friends, end eventually it also reaches them. When Rasmus is found to be HIV-positive, Benjamin finally decides to tell his parents and church elders that he is homosexual, in order to fully support Rasmus. This leads him to being shunned by the church, and forces his parents to stop all contact if they want to remain in the congregation.
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