A Swedish Love Story

This article is about the Swedish movie. For the Owen Pallett album, see A Swedish Love Story EP.

En kärlekshistoria

Directed by	Roy Andersson
Produced by	Ejnar Gunnerholm
Written by	Roy Andersson
Starring	Ann-Sofie Kylin Rolf Sohlman
Music by	Björn Isfält Jan Bandel
Cinematography	Jörgen Persson
Edited by	Kalle Boman
Release dates	24 April 1970 (1970-04-24)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

A Swedish Love Story (Swedish: En kärlekshistoria) is a 1970 Swedish romantic drama directed by Roy Andersson, starring Ann-Sofie Kylin and Rolf Sohlman as two teenagers falling in love. Inspired by the Czechoslovak New Wave, the film was Andersson's feature film debut and was successful in Sweden and abroad.

Cast

Ann-Sofie Kylin as Annika
Rolf Sohlman as Pär
Anita Lindblom as Eva
Bertil Norström as John Hellberg
Lennart Tellfelt as Lasse
Margreth Weivers as Elsa
Arne Andersson as Arne
Maud Backéus as Gunhild
Verner Edberg as Verner
Elsie Holm as Guest at Crayfish Party
Tommy Nilsson - Roger
Gunnar Ossiander as Pär's Grandfather
Gunvor Ternéus as Guest at Crayfish Party
Lennart Tollén as Lennart
Björn Andrésen as Pär's Buddy

Production and reception

Roy Andersson had just graduated from film school, having made two promising short films and a 48 minutes examination film, when he was given the opportunity to make A Swedish Love Story. The film was shot between 16 June and 26 August 1969.^[1] The Time Out Film Guide 2009 says the film is "strangely touching and wonderfully strange."^[2]

Awards

It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3] The film was also selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 43rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[4] At the 7th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Film.^[5]

References

↑ Press reaction and commentary at the Swedish Film Institute (Swedish)
↑ Nicholas Royle "Swedish Love Story, A", in John Pym (ed.) Time Out Film Guide 2009, London: Penguin, 2008, p.1040
↑ "IMDb.com: Awards for A Swedish Love Story". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
↑ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
↑ "En kärlekshistoria (1970)". Swedish Film Institute. 2 March 2014.

External links

Official website
A Swedish Love Story at the Internet Movie Database
A Swedish Love Story at the Swedish Film Institute Database
Trailer (from Solaris Distribution)

Guldbagge Award for Best Film

1963–1990	The Silence (1963/64) Swedish Wedding Night (1964/65) Heja Roland! (1965/66) Persona (1966/67) Hugo and Josephine (1967/68) The White Game (1968/69) A Swedish Love Story & Mistreatment (1969/70) The Emigrants (1970/71) The Apple War (1971/72) Cries and Whispers (1972/73) A Handful of Love (1973/74) The Last Adventure (1974/75) Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975/76) The Man on the Roof (1976/77) The Adventures of Picasso (1977/78) A Respectable Life (1978/79) To Be a Millionaire (1979/80) Children's Island (1980/81) The Simple-Minded Murderer (1981/82) Fanny and Alexander (1982/83) Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain (1984) My Life as a Dog (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Katinka & Back to Ararat (1988) The Miracle in Valby (1989) Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)

1991–present	Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991) House of Angels (1992) The Slingshot (1993) A Pizza in Jordbro (1994) All Things Fair (1995) Hamsun (1996) Tic Tac (1997) Show Me Love (1998) Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen (1999) Songs from the Second Floor (2000) As White as in Snow (2001) Lilya 4-ever (2002) Evil (2003) Dalecarlians (2004) Nina's Journey (2005) Kidz in da Hood (2006) You, the Living (2007) Everlasting Moments (2008) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) Sebbe (2010) She Monkeys (2011) Eat Sleep Die (2012) The Reunion (2013) Force Majeure (2014) The Here After (2015)

Films directed by Roy Andersson

Feature films	A Swedish Love Story (1970) Giliap (1975) Songs from the Second Floor (2000) You, the Living (2007) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

Other films	The White Game (1968) Something Happened (1987) World of Glory (1991)

Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

1956–1975	The Staffan Stolle Story (1956) The Seventh Seal (1957) The Magician (1958) None (1959) The Virgin Spring (1960) Through a Glass Darkly (1961) The Mistress (1962) The Silence (1963) Raven's End (1964) Dear John (1965) Persona (1966) Here Is Your Life (1967) Shame (1968) Ådalen 31 (1969) A Swedish Love Story (1970) The Emigrants (1971) The New Land (1972) None (1973) None (1974) None (1975)

1976–2000	City of My Dreams (1976) The Man on the Roof (1977) None (1978) A Respectable Life (1979) Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1980) Children's Island (1981) Flight of the Eagle (1982) Fanny and Alexander (1983) Åke and His World (1984) Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Hip hip hurra! (1987) None (1988) The Women on the Roof (1989) Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990) The Ox (1991) House of Angels (1992) The Slingshot (1993) The Last Dance (1994) All Things Fair (1995) Jerusalem (1996) Tic Tac (1997) Show Me Love (1998) Under the Sun (1999) Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

2001–present	Jalla! Jalla! (2001) Lilya 4-ever (2002) Evil (2003) As It Is in Heaven (2004) Zozo (2005) Falkenberg Farewell (2006) You, the Living (2007) Everlasting Moments (2008) Involuntary (2009) Simple Simon (2010) Beyond (2011) The Hypnotist (2012) Eat Sleep Die (2013) Force Majeure (2014) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015)

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