One Summer of Happiness

One Summer of Happiness Hon dansade en sommar

Directed by	Arne Mattsson
Produced by	Lennart Landheim
Screenplay by	Volodja Semitjov Olle Hellbom
Based on	Sommardansen by Per Olof Ekström
Starring	Ulla Jacobsson Folke Sundquist Edvin Adolphson John Elfström
Music by	Sven Sköld
Cinematography	Göran Strindberg
Edited by	Lennart Wallén
Production company	Nordisk Tonefilm
Distributed by	Nordisk Tonefilm
Release dates	17 December 1951 (1951-12-17) (Sweden)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

One Summer of Happiness (Swedish: Hon dansade en sommar - She danced for a summer) is a 1951 Swedish film by director Arne Mattsson, based on the 1949 novel Sommardansen (The Summer Dance) by Per Olof Ekström. It was the first Swedish film to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. Today, the film is mainly known for its nude scenes, which caused much controversy at the time and, together with Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953), spread the image of Swedish "free love" around the world.

Plot

The film tells the story about the university student Göran who spends a summer on his uncle's farm, where he meets the young Kerstin. They instantly fall in love, but Kerstin is ruled by very strict relatives, so they must hide their love story from everyone, not the least from the extremely strict vicar. They experience an intense summer together, and Göran dreads the idea of returning to university in the autumn. But a motorcycle accident puts an end to it all, with Kerstin dying in Göran's arms.

Main cast

Ulla Jacobsson as Kerstin
Folke Sundquist as Göran
Edvin Adolphson as Anders Persson
Irma Christenson as Sigrid
John Elfström as The Vicar
Nils Hallberg as Nisse
Gunvor Pontén as Sylvia
Berta Hall as Anna

Reception

The film caused much international controversy, because of a nude swimming sequence and a love scene which included a close-up of Ulla Jacobsson's breasts, but also because of its very anti-clerical message by portraying a local priest as the main villain. So, in spite of its awards, the film was banned in several countries, among them Spain,^[1] and it wasn't released in the United States until 1955.^[2]

Awards

Won

2nd Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear^[3]
1952 Cannes Film Festival - Best Music.^[4]

Nominated

1952 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or^[4]

References

↑ The Swedish Film Database: Hon dansade en sommar (1951) - Kommentar Svensk filmografi (in Swedish) Linked 2014-03-01
↑ IMDb: One Summer of Happiness (1951) - Release info Linked 2014-03-01
↑ "2nd Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
1 2 "Festival de Cannes: One Summer of Happiness". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-17.

External links

Hon dansade en sommar at the Internet Movie Database
Hon dansade en sommar at the Swedish Film Institute Database
One Summer of Happiness is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Golden Bear-winning films

Four in a Jeep (1951)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
In Beaver Valley (1951)
Justice Is Done (1951)
Cinderella (1951)
One Summer of Happiness (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Die Ratten (1955)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960)
La Notte (1961)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Dry Summer (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
The Departure (1967)
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Early Works (1969)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Distant Thunder (1973)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Adoption (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
The Ascent (1977)
Ascensor (1978)
Las truchas (1978)
What Max Said (1978)
David (1979)
Heartland (1980)
Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Ascendancy (1983)
La colmena (1983)
Love Streams (1984)
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Wetherby (1985)
Stammheim (1986)
The Theme (1987)
Red Sorghum (1988)
Rain Man (1989)
Music Box (1990)
Larks on a String (1990)
The House of Smiles (1991)
Grand Canyon (1992)
Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
In the Name of the Father (1994)
The Bait (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997)
Central Station (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1999)
Magnolia (2000)
Intimacy (2001)
Spirited Away (2002)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
In This World (2003)
Head-On (2004)
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
Grbavica (2006)
Tuya's Marriage (2007)
Elite Squad (2008)
The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
Honey (2010)
A Separation (2011)
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Child's Pose (2013)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Taxi (2015)
Fire at Sea (2016)

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