In Lilac Time
1952 film
- 4 February 1952 (1952-02-04)
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In Lilac Time (Swedish: När syrenerna blomma) is a 1952 Swedish historical drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Kenne Fant, Nine-Christine Jönsson and Gudrun Brost.[1] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director P.A. Lundgren.
Synopsis
In the late nineteenth century Johannes, a Stockholm boy is left by his middle-class parents and brought up in the countryside where he struggles to settle in. The unrelenting hostility is only softened by the kind Charlotta. When he is twenty he returns to the capital city and enlists in the Royal Guards and meets up with Charlotta again.
Cast
- Kenne Fant as Johannes Weijner
- Nine-Christine Jönsson as Charlotta aka Trubbnos
- Gudrun Brost as Alexandra Weijner
- Eva Stiberg as Frida
- Maj-Lis Lüning as Julia
- Åke Fridell as Doctor
- John Elfström as Gustafson
- Anna-Lisa Baude as Emma
- Ingrid Backlin as Aina Wickman
- Börje Mellvig as Wickman
- Hjördis Petterson as Mrs. Lamberg, 'Bläsan'
- Willy Peters a John Weijner
- Björn Berglund as Rudolf
- Lissi Alandh as Lena i Härsikeby
- Sten Lindgren as August Åhlund
- Hugo Björne as King Oscar II
- Olav Riégo as General Sven Lagerberg
- Arthur Fischer as Cobbler Strid
References
- ^ Qvist & Von Bagh p.93
Bibliography
- Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
- In Lilac Time at IMDb
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Films directed by Ivar Johansson
- The Realm of the Rye (1929)
- Skipper's Love (1931)
- Lucky Devils (1932)
- People of Hälsingland (1933)
- Boman's Boy (1933)
- Fired (1934)
- The Song to Her (1934)
- The Boys of Number Fifty Seven (1935)
- Ocean Breakers (1935)
- The Lady Becomes a Maid (1936)
- Mother Gets Married (1937)
- Storm Over the Skerries (1938)
- For Better, for Worse (1938)
- Between Us Barons (1939)
- Oh, What a Boy! (1939)
- The Crazy Family (1940)
- The Train Leaves at Nine (1941)
- We're All Errand Boys (1941)
- If I Could Marry the Minister (1941)
- Take Care of Ulla (1942)
- The Yellow Clinic (1942)
- Young Blood (1943)
- Captured by a Voice (1943)
- Eaglets (1944)
- The Forest Is Our Heritage (1944)
- Motherhood (1945)
- The Österman Brothers' Virago (1945)
- The Wedding on Solö (1946)
- Life in the Finnish Woods (1947)
- The Poetry of Ådalen (1947)
- Carnival Evening (1948)
- Big Lasse of Delsbo (1949)
- The Devil and the Smalander (1949)
- The Realm of the Rye (1950)
- In Lilac Time (1952)
- Kalle Karlsson of Jularbo (1952)
- Ursula, the Girl from the Finnish Forests (1953)
- The Red Horses (1954)
- People of the Finnish Forests (1955)
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