SOS – En segelsällskapsresa (S.O.S. - A Sailing Conduct Tour), released in some English speaking territories as Swedes at Sea, is a Swedish comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1988,[2] and directed by Lasse Åberg. It is the third film in the Sällskapsresan film series.
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| Directed by | Lasse Åberg |
| Written by | Bo Jonsson, Lasse Åberg |
| Produced by | Bo Jonsson |
| Starring | Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen, Johan Rabaeus |
| Distributed by | Svensk Filmindustri |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
| Box office | 1.3 million admissions (Sweden)[1] |
Synopsis
editThe outgoing Norwegian art director in billboard advertising, Ole (Skolmen) takes his friend, the socially more cautious electric toaster quality inspector Stig-Helmer (Åberg) to a Stockholm midsummer costume party. The way home takes a wrong turn and the two friends are springboarded through an involuntary cruise on a garbage barge[a] via an upper class financier's summer party at Saltnäs in the Stockholm archipelago to the idyllic island, Stråholmen, threatened by unscrupulous investors and a bent municipal board member's secret and foul development plans.
On the journey, the film takes the viewer through a virtual catalog of the more or less expensive and/or self inflicted mishaps which leisure sailors may call upon themselves in the Stockholm archipelago during the summer.
Events culminate with a match race between two 12 Metre yachts, the Kookaburra II and the New Sweden being disrupted somewhat by an unidentified undersea vessel[b]
Cast
edit- Lasse Åberg as Stig-Helmer Olsson
- Jon Skolmen as Ole Bramserud
- Birgitte Söndergaard as Anna-Vera
- Tor Isedal as Stråholmaren
- Ewa Fröling as Madeleine "Madde" Abrahamsen - Henkan's wife
- Johan Rabaeus as Henrik "Henkan" Abrahamsen - investor
- Per Eggers as Kaj "Kajan" Björkhagen - investor
- Sten Ljunggren as Didrik - investor
- Barbro Hiort af Ornäs as Stig-Helmer's mother
Reception
editThe film was the most popular film of 1989 in Sweden with 1.3 million admissions.[1]
References
edit- 1 2 "'89 Swedish b.o. up from year ago". Variety. 7 February 1990. p. 12.
- ↑ "SOS - en segelsällskapsresa" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Database. 25 December 1988. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
Footnotes
edit- ↑ à la the Mobro 4000
- ↑ being a running gag and a Chekhov's gun throughout the film
External links
edit- SOS – En segelsällskapsresa at IMDb
- SOS – En segelsällskapsresa at the Swedish Film Institute Database
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