Hemsöborna

Name: Hemsöborna
Genre: Drama
Cast: Allan Edwall, Sif Ruud, Sven Wollter, Hilding Gavle, Håkan Serner

TV series
1966
1 season
Drama

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Carlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of it. He is met with resistance by the widow's jealous son Gusten who is more interested in fishing than farming. When it is decided to hire out some houses for summer guests from the city the equilibrium is disturbed.

Based on the novel The People of Hemsö (1887)
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About the show

Hemsöborna is a 1966 Swedish drama television series directed by Bengt Lagerkvist, starring Sif Ruud, Allan Edwall and Sven Wollter. It follows the social dynamics when a widow hires a man to run her farm on an island in the Stockholm Archipelago. It is based on the 1887 novel The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg. Produced by Sveriges Television (SVT), it was the most expensive Swedish television production of all time when it was made.

SVT first broadcast Hemsöborna in 7 episodes of 30 minutes each from 19 February to 2 April 1966. A version edited into two episodes was broadcast in 1967 and a version with 3 60-minute episodes was broadcast multiple times from 1971 to 1999. The series was released on DVD in 2004.

The series was a great success both with critics and viewers, with viewership in the millions. It was a major breakthrough for Wollter. Lagerkvist went on to direct other high-profile television adaptations of Swedish literary classics, notably Strindberg's The Red Room in 1970, where he reunited with Hemsöborna's screenwriter Herbert Grevenius and cinematographer Bertil Wiktorsson.

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