She only danced one summer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | She only danced one summer |
| Original title | Hon dansade en sommar |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arne Mattsson |
| script | Volodya Semitjov |
| production |
Lennart Landheim for Nordisk Tonefilm |
| music | Sven Skold |
| camera | Göran Strindberg |
| cut | Lennart Wallén |
| occupation | |
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She danced only one summer (OT: Hon dansade en sommar ) is a Swedish film by Arne Mattsson from 1951 based on the novel Sommardansen by Per Olof Ekström .
action
Göran Stendahl has just graduated from high school and decides to spend the summer holidays with his uncle Persson in the country. He wants to help him on the farm and with the harvest until his studies in town begin. Shortly after his arrival, he met the 17-year-old farm girl Kerstin. They both fall in love. The burgeoning love affair is watched with suspicion by the outside world. Uncle Persson sympathizes with Göran and Kerstin, while the girl's parents and the local pastor stand up against the youth's immorality. The pastor only believes in the bad in people and, among other things, forbids schools as a venue for youth festivals. The youngsters later renovate a shed provided by Uncle Persson, where they will meet from now on. Later Torsten, a mentally retarded servant, burns the shed down in his religious delusions.
When a relative of Kerstin discovers her love affair with Göran, the young woman is sent to relatives in another village. Göran finds out the whereabouts and goes swimming naked with Kerstin, they promise each other eternal love. But even Göran's father, who became prosperous as a farmer's son in the city, cannot understand his son's love for a simple peasant girl. He demands that his son start studying in the city. On the first day of university, however, Göran returns to Kerstin in the country. Despite the adverse circumstances, Göran and Kerstin stay together. After the performance of a play in the village, both of them have a motorcycle accident because a drunk driver comes towards them - Kerstin does not survive the accident.
The film tells the love story as a big flashback, the framework at the beginning and end of the film takes place at Kerstin's funeral: During the funeral speech, the pastor refers to the depravity of modern youth, for which the young lovers were also punished in the end. Uncle Persson, on the other hand, finds nicer, milder words and criticizes the bigotry of those who condemn Kerstin and Göran.
Remarks
The film premiered on December 17, 1951 in Sweden. She was in the Federal Republic of Germany on August 22, 1952, and in the GDR on October 17, 1952. In the USA, however, the film was only shown from March 21, 1955. She only danced one summer and became one of Sweden's greatest film hits of all time. The famous nude bathing scene sparked discussions around the world. The Swedish filmmakers foresaw the scandal, so they shot four versions of the controversial scene. Both Ulla Jacobsson and Folke Sundquist were completely naked in the original scene. The protagonists were shown half-naked on screens in Sweden, France, Great Britain and the USA. In Spain and Italy it was decided to use the half-bare chest. In the Netherlands only the heads of the bathing actors were shown.
synchronization
| role | actor | German Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Kerstin | Ulla Jacobsson | Marianne Prenzel |
| Göran Stendal | Folke Sundquist | Harald Juhnke |
| Uncle Anders Persson | Edvin Adolphson | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert |
| Pastor | John Elfström | Fritz Tillmann |
criticism
"The film drama, which advocates free love with poetic images and moderate permissiveness, aroused moral indignation through a nude scene unusual for its time and thus became a success with the public."
Awards
- Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1952
- Best Score at Cannes International Film Festival 1952
DVD release
- She only danced one summer , German language version (including bonus material interview with Gunvor Pontén), FalkFiction Home Entertainment, 2009.
literature
- Per Olof Ekström : She only danced one summer (original title: Sommardansen ). Akros Verlag, 1952.
- Progress-Filmillustrierte / She only danced one summer 1950–51.
- Claudia Beindorf: "She only danced one summer": Construction and reception of stereotypes . Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 1996/1998, ISBN 3-932406-05-2 (= Nordeuropa-Institut (Ed.): Working Papers Communities = Arbetshaft gemenskaper. ISSN 1432-5543 )
- Program for the Berlin International Film Festival 1952.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b She only danced one summer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Release Info on imdb.com
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | She only danced one summer. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .
Web links
- One Summer of Happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Why Swedes are easy to get for the exhibition “The Swedish Sin” Die Welt , August 9, 2014