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Swedenhielms

The Swedenhielms are trying to keep up appearances, but are in fact in dire need of cash and desperately hoping for their brilliant patriarch (Gösta Ekman) to win the Nobel Prize. Famous playwright Hjalmar Bergman’s wife Stina was the right person to turn the play into a script – this film became a fine example of how Swedish cinema made strides in the 1930s. It’s a comedy that shows how the insufferable members of an aristocratic family really depend on their housekeeper to keep everything afloat; honor is an important theme. Very amusing, with a grandiose theatrical performance by Ekman, but Karin Swanström is the standout.  

1935-Sweden. 92 min. B/W. Directed by Gustaf Molander. Screenplay: Stina Bergman, Gustaf Molander. Play: Hjalmar Bergman. Cast: Gösta Ekman (Rolf Swedenhielm), Björn Berglund (Rolf Swedenhielm, Jr.), Håkan Westergren (Bo Swedenhielm), Tutta Rolf, Ingrid Bergman, Sigurd Wallén… Karin Swanström.

Trivia: Remade in Germany as Ein glĂĽcklicher Mensch (1943) and as a 1959 TV movie, in Denmark as Swedenhielm Family (1947) and three times as TV movies in Sweden (in 1961, 1980 and 2003).

 

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