Äppelkriget (1971)

Director:

Tage Danielsson

Writers:

Hans Alfredson (writer)
Tage Danielsson (writer)

Release Date:

January 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A German business man, Volkswagner, comes to Österlen in the south of Sweden to build Deutschneyland...

Plot Keywords:

Businessman | Supernatural Power | Skåne | Environment | Giant

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Per Grundén	...	Jean Volkswagner
Gösta Ekman	...	Sten Wall
Sture Ericson	...	Larsson i Tofta
Ingvar Ottoson	...	Werner Affeman
Per Waldvik	...	Hans Nilsson
Yvonne Lombard	...	Kerstin Gustafsson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lotta Ågrup	...	Little girl
Nils Ahlroth	...	Gustav Lindberg
Hans Alfredson	...	Severin Lindberg
Tomas Alfredson	...	Count
Inez Almerfors	...	Script girl
Birgitta Andersson	...	Luft-Hanna Lindberg
Evald Bennerup	...	Man in mysterious house
Thord Carlsson	...	Urban Thorsell
Gus Dahlström	...	Film director
Tage Danielsson	...	Bernhard Lindberg
Tomas Dyfverman	...	Man in the appletree
Moltas Eriksson	...	Kent Aurén
Leif Ernhagen	...	Worker
Crüll Feldström	...	Mailman
Karl Erik Flens	...	Valfrid Paulsson
Mariette Fransson	...	Janet Lindberg
Per I. Gedin	...	Window cleaner
Bengt Haslum
Ronald F. Hoiseck	...	Manager Rumford
Sten Kärrby	...	Tore Gustafsson (as Herr K)
Folke Lind	...	Bicycle repairman
Per Erik Lindorm	...	Jockey
Martin Ljung	...	Aake Lindberg
Manfred Månsson	...	Persson, pig dealer
Nils Nittel	...	Bert Lindberg
Anne Marie Nyman	...	Agnes Lindberg
Inger Pehrsson	...	Repairman's wife
Bo Segerstedt	...	Count's servant
Håkan Serner	...	Eberhard Lindberg
Carl-Uno Sjöblom	...	Baloon salesman
Roy Sund	...	Lifeguard
Gunnar Svensson	...	Man with plastic bag
Max von Sydow	...	Roy Lindberg
Jan Wirén	...	Shoemaker Wilen
Monica Zetterlund	...	Anna Lindberg
Erik Zetterström	...	Well-dressed man

Also Known As:

The Apple War (USA)

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Company:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Trivia:

All music in this movie was written by Evert Taube. Hasse and Tage wanted to use his music in order to give the movie a more Swedish touch. But they also asked him to write a new song for them. Tage explained the plot to Evert and mentioned that the land they were trying to rescue was called Änglamark (roughly translated to Angelland or Angeldomain). Taube liked the word and wrote the new song Änglamark which became the theme song of the movie.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sten Wall: Can you imagine a better place for a popcorn stand?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Svenska ord i bild och tal (2006)

Soundtrack:

Änglamark

yeah, me too

I too saw this film in the 1970s at the Venice Fox, which was then an art house and which has now been re-purposed for auctions or something. They screened it for a week; it was some sort of benefit, and I remember going a second time and dragging a few friends with me. It remains one of my all-time favorite films. My Swedish friend, Lennart, says that it is fairly well-known in Sweden and remains popular--it's a lot of fun but it's also a piece of devastatingly targeted agit-prop. I've been searching for it, on and off, since I saw it, in the face of blank stares from the vast majority of Americans, who have never heard of it, and even from clerks in independent video stores, who think I'm nuts. If only someone would make a DVD with English-language subtitles!