491 is a 1964 Swedish black-and-white drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman, based on a novel by . The story is about a group of youth criminals who are chosen to participate in a social experiment in which they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers. The film's tagline is: "It is written that 490 times you can sin and be forgiven. This motion picture is about the 491st."