A Swedish Love Story
- Rolf Sohlman: Pär
- Ann -Sofie Kylin: Annika
- Bertil Norstrom: John, Annika's father
- Margreth Weivers: Elsa, Annika's mother
- Lennart Tellfeldt: Lasse, Pär's Father
- Gunnar Ossiander: Pär's Grandfather
- Anita Lindblom: Eva, Annika's aunt
- Maud Backéus: Gunhild, Pär's Mother
- Björn Andrésen: Pär friend
A Swedish Love Story ( OT: En kärlekshistoria ) is a Swedish film from 1969, It was the debut film by Swedish director Roy Andersson, who had just completed his training. .
Action
The 14 -year-old Annika and the 15- year-old Pär fall in love in Stockholm summer together. From her young love soon grows rebellion against the adjusted middle class world of their parents' generation.
Background
Andersson had his first film idea of the production company Svensk Industri film offered under the working title 15 where it was rejected. However, it was shortly afterwards - now under the title En kärlekshistoria - accepted by the film company Europe.
There are only a Swedish version with subtitles in different languages. The film was recorded in the period from June 16 to August 26 in 1969 and had its premiere on 24 April 1970 at the cinema, saga ' in Stockholm. On 31 October 1971, the film ran for the first time on German television ARD.
Reception and effect, Awards
The film was a box office hit. He won in the category Best Film of the most important Swedish Film Award Guldbagge for the year 1970. In the Film Festival in Berlin in the same year he won four awards, including the prize for the best manuscript, the price of the journalists for the best film - as a substitute for that year not awarded for political reasons Golden Bear. The film was shown on Swedish television in 1986 and was repeated them in the years 1993, 2006 and 2007. A version with additional material and interviews was produced in 2003.
The importance of the film in Sweden makes an award from the year 2012 clearly: the film was chosen in a poll of filmmakers and critics in Sweden by the film magazine FLM in the list of Sweden's best films of all time at No. 4.
Reviews
" The young Swedish director Roy Andersson created his first work, a simple and yet charming love story, far from any theater tearjerker, as they have been, Boys Aphrodites ' [ ... ] not yet seen again on the big screen since the. His film, while depicting the broken relationship of young people to their consumed by the everyday and subscribed by the mediocrity parents and relatives whose illusions have long since gone out of life. The film boasts the play of his very young actor and as a psychological portrait of our society - you can already recommend him without hesitation Four -year-olds. "
" Unpretentious but somewhat clichéd movie attempt by the young Swedish director Andersson. "
" Predicate, Precious ' "