The Blue Hotel (1977)

Nebraska in the 1880s bleak lonely and far from what youd expect The Wild West to be But for a naive Swedish immigrant the frontier parlor of THE BLUE HOTEL represents the quintessential western fantasy No one can convince The Swede that his dimestore notions about The West are foolish He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him Inevitably the Swede attracts tragedy However who is responsible The negative Swede Or the cliquish hotel guests Jan Kadar directs this timely story of how society punishes outsiders for being different