A Summer Tale is a 2000 comedy-drama. Its original Swedish title is Den bästa sommaren, which means "The Best Summer". Written and directed by Ulf Malmros, the film stars Kjell Bergqvist, Rebecca Scheja, Cecilia Nilsson, and Brasse Brännström, and was produced by Zentropa and Memfis Film.

Den bästa sommaren
Directed byUlf Malmros
Written byUlf Malmros
Lars Johansson
Produced byLars Jönsson
CinematographyMats Olofsson
Edited byFredrik Abrahamsen, Michal Leszczylowski
Music byDan Sundquist
Henrik Medquist
Production
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Zentropa
Distributed byFilm i Väst
Sonet Film
Sandrew Metronome
Release date
  • 8 March 2000 (2000-03-08)
Running time
91 minutes
CountriesSweden
Denmark
LanguageSwedish

Plot

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The film takes place in 1958 in Molkom, where two children, Mårten from Stockholm and Annika from Uppsala, will be "summer children" to Yngve Johansson, who every summer takes children to his home, but it has been bad earlier years. In the beginning Mårten and Annika don't like Yngve, but they love each other more and more and they also start liking Yngve. Maybe he isn't as bad as they think? This summer'll move everything in their life for all future.

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Production

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The film was shot at Björkås Herrgård in Vargön, Restad Gård in Vänersborg, Anten-Gräfsnäs Railway, in Upphärad and in Sjuntorp. It premiered (in Sweden) on 8 March 2000 and is recommended from 7 years.

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