A Summer Tale
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Director Ulf Malmros Duration Country Sweden, Denmark | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama, Family Writer Ulf Malmros, Vasa Language Swedish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 8 March 2000 (2000-03-08) Music director Dan Sundquist, Henrik Medquist Screenplay Ulf Malmros, Lars Johansson Cast Kjell Bergqvist (Yngve Johansson), Anastasios Soulis (Mårten), Rebecca Scheja (Annika), Cecilia Nilsson (Miss Svanström)Similar movies Related Ulf Malmros movies Tagline Two kids move in with a lonely undertaker who is secretly in love with the town's school teacher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Summer Tale is a 2000 Swedish-Danish comedy-drama. Its original Swedish title is Den bästa sommaren, which means "The Best Summer". Written and directed by Ulf Malmros, the film stars Kjell Bergqvist, Rebecca Scheja, Cecilia Nilsson, and Brasse Brännström, and was produced by Zentropa and Memfis Film.
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Plot
The film takes place in 1958 in Molkom, where two children, Mårten from Stockholm and Annika from Uppsala, will be "summer children" to Yngve Johansson, who every summer takes children to his home, but it has been bad earlier years. In the beginning Mårten and Annika don't like Yngve, but they love each other more and more and they also start liking Yngve. Maybe he isn't as bad as they think? This summer'll move everything in their life for all future.
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Production
The film was shot at Björkås Herrgård in Vargön, Restad Gård in Vänersborg, Anten-Gräfsnäs Railway, in Upphärad and in Sjuntorp. It premiered (in Sweden) on 8 March 2000 and is recommended from 7 years.
References
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