One Summer of Happiness (1951) on Netflix
Göran, nineteen and out of high school, spends the summer at his uncle Anders's farm and meets Kerstin, seventeen. The vicar and her strict parents frown on the young people's gatherings.
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Plot summary
Nineteen and finished with high school, Göran comes to spend the summer at the countryside farm of his uncle Anders Persson. Farm work is new to the city student, but Kerstin, seventeen and shy, changes how he feels about country life. The village young people are locked in conflict with the vicar, who condemns their gatherings as immoral and bars them from the school where they meet. Anders gives them an old barn instead, and they set about renovating it. Kerstin's mother tries to keep her away from the group, but Kerstin goes with Göran, and the two grow closer as the summer passes.
Cast
- Sten Mattssonas Olle, Farm Worker(Sten Mattson)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Summer of Happiness (1951)
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- The film's nude swimming sequence, a love scene with a close-up of Ulla Jacobsson's breasts, and its anti-clerical message that made a local priest the villain caused international controversy. It was banned in Spain and not widely released in the United States until 1955, though it played in San Francisco as early as October 1953.
- One Summer of Happiness, together with Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953), spread the image of Swedish "free love" around the world.
- One Summer of Happiness, directed by Arne Mattsson from Per Olof Ekström's 1949 novel Sommardansen, was the first Swedish film to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
