Hon dansade en sommar (1951)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Arne Mattsson

Writers:

Per Olof Ekström (novel)
Volodja Semitjov (writer)

Release Date:

17 December 1951 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The picture everyone is talking about! See it from the beginning!

Plot:

Student Göran is vacationing on his uncle's farm. On the first day he meets the 17-year old Kerstin...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Youth Club | Skinny Dipping | Farmer | Nudity

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Edvin Adolphson	...	Anders Persson
Ulla Jacobsson	...	Kerstin
John Elfström	...	Priest
Folke Sundquist	...	Göran Stendahl (as Folke Sundqvist)
Erik Hell	...	Torsten, farm worker
Irma Christenson	...	Sigrid
Sten Lindgren	...	Mr. Stendahl
Nils Hallberg	...	Nisse, farm worker
Sten Mattsson	...	Olle, farm worker (as Sten Mattson)
Gunvor Pontén	...	Sylvia, Nisse's girlfriend
Gösta Gustafson	...	Fredrik Larsson, Kerstin's uncle
Berta Hall	...	Anna
Erich Conrad	...	Helge
Arne Källerud	...	Klas Wiberg
Axel Högel	...	Kerstin's grandfather

Also Known As:

One Summer of Happiness (USA)

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Mälaren, Sigtuna, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Nordisk Tonefilm

Trivia:

This film was mentioned by a 1954 Memorandum of the New York State Education Department, written with regard to New York State Law 1954, Chapter 620, which added definitions of "immoral" and "incite to crime" for motion picture censorship purposes. The Memorandum cited this film as an example of a film about which the ED's Motion Picture Division had been "beset with inquiries and applications for reconsideration of motion pictures which heretofore have been regarded as contrary to the present provisions of the statute." It stated that One Summer of Happiness "contains a scene where a boy, nineteen, and a girl, seventeen, spending a vacation together, swim and embrace in the nude."

Movie Connections:

Featured in Ollebom (2002) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Jungfru Maria

Great, old-fashioned love story

I saw this movie the first time yesterday. I´ve had the tape for about two years, but I was not so interested in it. But now I´m very glad about having watched it, because it is a great, old-fashioned love story containing a warm kind of romance, you cannot find in actual movies. The story is quite simple: student from the city falls in love with girl from the country. She is not allowed to love him, but nevertheless they do...

The scene, showing both naked taking a bath in a beautiful swedish lake, caused 1951 a scandal. Funny, about what harmless stuff people got annoyed in former times... 9/10