Jan Erik Wilhelm August Jönson is a Swedish stage and screen actor, director and writer.
He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1971.
Jan Jönsson staged Samuel Beckett's "En attendant Godot/ Waiting for Godot" at San Quentin prison, Ca.
USA, and at Kumla prison in Sweden.
He has written and performed a monologue about meeting and training inmates and his connection with the playwright Samuel Beckett.
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.