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One Summer of Happiness ()

Hon dansade en sommar (original title)
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After graduation, a Swedish youth goes to live with his uncle in the countryside and immediately takes a liking to a local girl.

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Anders Persson
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Kerstin
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Priest
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Göran (as Folke Sundqvist)
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Torsten, Farm Worker
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Sigrid
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Mr. Stendahl
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Nisse, Farm Worker
Sten Mattsson ...
Olle, Farm Worker (as Sten Mattson)
Gunvor Pontén ...
Sylvia, Nisse's Girlfriend
Gösta Gustafson ...
Fredrik Larsson, Kerstin's Uncle
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Anna
Erich Conrad ...
Helge (as Erich Conard)
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Mary Ann, Göran's Girlfriend (as Margareta Löwler)
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Klas Wiberg
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Kerstin's Grandfather
Hedvig Lindby ...
Grandmother
Olav Riégo ...
Teacher (as Olav Riego)
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Accordion Player (as Carl-Gustav Lindstedt)
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Girl Applying Make-up (uncredited)
Ulla-Bella Fridh ...
Göran's Class Mate (uncredited)
Ejnar Haglund ...
Man at Göran's Student Party (uncredited)
Ingemar Holde ...
Man on Bicycle at Motorcycle Accident (uncredited)
Gustaf 'Stålfarfar' Håkansson ...
Hospital Patient (uncredited)
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Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Gunilla Pontén ...
Görans' Class Mate (uncredited)
Jan Sandquist ...
Member of Youth League (uncredited)
Birgitta Wetterhall ...
Gunnel (uncredited)

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Arne Mattsson

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Per Olof Ekström ... (novel "Sommardansen") (as P.O. Ekström)
 
Volodja Semitjov ... (screenplay) (as W. Semitjov)
 
Olle Hellbom ... () (uncredited)
 
Arne Mattsson ... () (uncredited)

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Sven Sköld

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Göran Strindberg

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Lennart Wallén

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Bibi Lindström

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Lennart Landheim ... production manager
Gunnar Lundin ... unit manager

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Gösta Åberg ... poster designer: Sweden

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Olle Jacobsson ... sound

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Ulf Knöppel ... camera operator: second unit

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Sven Sköld ... music arranger

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Kick Reeder ... continuity clerk (as Kick Palmgren)

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Alva Lundin ... title designer (uncredited)
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After graduating from high school 19 year old Göran goes to his uncle Anders's farm in the countryside for recreation. It's summer and a lot of work to do at the farm, but he, the city student, isn't accustomed to that. He falls in love with 17 year old Kerstin, and suddenly he is very engaged in country life. Göran is a foreigner, but he quickly blends in with the village youth. They are in a bitter conflict with the vicar, who condemns all their activities as immoral. When the vicar forbids the youth to use the school for their meetings anymore, Anders gives them an old barn, which they start renovating. Kerstin has a strict mother, who in vain forbids her to take part in the youth activities. She goes there with Göran. She is a bit shy, but the romance between them develops step by step, until it is fulfilled a summer night, when they swim naked in a lake. Despite all efforts of Kerstin's parents and the vicar, they cannot stop Kerstin and Göran from meeting each other also when autumn has arrived. When a road accident suddenly ends Kerstin's life, Göran is accused by the vicar for being a seducer that had led Kerstin astray. Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

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Also Known As
  • One Summer of Happiness (United States)
  • Hon Dansade En Sommar (India, English title)
  • One Summer of Happiness (United Kingdom)
  • Elle n'a dansé qu'un seul été (France)
  • Un solo verano de felicidad (Spain)
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Trivia This film was mentioned by a 1954 Memorandum of the New York State Education Department, written with regard to New York State Law 1954, Chapter 620, which added definitions of "immoral" and "incite to crime" for motion picture censorship purposes. The Memorandum cited this film as an example of a film about which the ED's Motion Picture Division had been "beset with inquiries and applications for reconsideration of motion pictures which heretofore have been regarded as contrary to the present provisions of the statute." It stated that One Summer of Happiness "contains a scene where a boy, nineteen, and a girl, seventeen, spending a vacation together, swim and embrace in the nude." See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Film présenté: Elle n'a dansé qu'un seul été (1956). See more »
Soundtracks Psalm 355: Blott en dag, ett ögonblick i sänder See more »

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