Love Mates (1961)
"Änglar, finns dom?" (original title)

Bank janitor play the stock market and compete with the bank.

Director:

Lars-Magnus Lindgren

Writers:

John Einar Åberg (novel), Lars-Magnus Lindgren

Stars:

Jarl Kulle, Christina Schollin, Edvin Adolphson

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jarl Kulle	...	Jan Froman
Christina Schollin	...	Margareta Günther
Edvin Adolphson	...	Viktor Günther
Isa Quensel	...	Louise Günther
Sigge Fürst	...	Bert Hagson
Elsa Carlsson	...	The Aunt
Gunnar Sjöberg	...	Karl-Evert Raeder
George Fant	...	Rolf Granér
Margit Carlqvist	...	Veronica von Sachs
Åke Claesson	...	Torsten Waller
Torsten Lilliecrona	...	Stenman, staff manager
Börje Mellvig	...	Westin
Toivo Pawlo	...	Bergerus

Storyline

Jan Froman is a young man with ambitions for the future. He gets a job as an lowly janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value, competing with bank itself. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a navy admiral.

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Plot Keywords:

bank | real estate | stockholm archipelago | archipelago | true love | 

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Taglines:

En modern saga om dygd och odygd - eller tvärtom!!

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

January 1968 (USA)

Also Known As:

Love Mates

Filming Locations:

Strandvägen, Östermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sandrews

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

Rear Admiral Viktor Günther's uniform is not correct. In the summer (as this obviously is), naval officers wear a white cover on their dress caps. The blue cap worn by Günther is part of the winter dress.

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Connections

Featured in Shit Happens (2000)

User Reviews

Lightweight fun....

Here is one of those suave, elegant romantic comedies that you hardly see nowadays in Sweden. It is not groundbreaking, genre shifting film but it has a lot of charm and wit.

The story is an simple one about Jan Froman(played by Jarl Kulle) who gets hired as an assistant janitor at bank office. He quickly shows an interest in one of his co workers Margareta Günther(played by Christina Schollin).

But she is upperclass, rich and also engaged, she however flattered by Fromans interest and his charm. Will Froman succeed?

This is basically the whole plot in a nutshell, but there is an incredible chemistry between Jarl Kulle and Christina Schollin. Kulle mainly famous for his work with Bergman(notably Sommarnattens leende/Smiles of a Summer Night 1955) shows again his incredible charm and talent for witty dialogue.

Christina Schollin does great job keeping up with him and together they form the same kind of partnership that Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn had in Bringing Up Baby (1938).

In the supporting cast there also other veteran Swedish actors such as Edvin Adolphson, Sigge Fürst. They were versatile, talented cators who would mainly play comedies and their performances here are very good.

Too bad the storyline didn't get more work, because sometimes the film feels like it is lacking something, exactly what is hard to say, but it would have needed something more then just boy meets girl intrigue.

However, future viewers, interested in an suave, elegant romantic comedy from Sweden, should check this one out. Mainly for the great performances.