| SOS - En segelsällskapsresa | |
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| Directed by | Lasse Åberg |
| Written by | Bo Jonsson, Lasse Åberg |
| Produced by | Bo Jonsson |
| Starring | Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen, Johan Rabaeus |
| Distributed by | Svensk Filmindustri |
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| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
SOS – En segelsällskapsresa (S.O.S. - A Sailing Conduct Tour), released in some English speaking territories as Swedes at Sea, is a Swedish comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1988, and directed by Lasse Åberg. It is the third film in the Sällskapsresan film series.
Synopsis
The outgoing Norwegian art director in billboard advertising, Ole (Skolmen) takes his friend, the socially more cautious electric toaster quality inspector Stig-Helmer (Åberg) to a Stockholm midsummer costume party. The way home takes a wrong turn and the two friends are springboarded through an involuntary cruise on a garbage barge via an upper class financier's summer party at Saltnäs in the Stockholm archipelago to the idyllic island, Stråholmen, threatened by unscrupulous investors and a bent municipal board member's secret and foul development plans.
On the journey, the film takes the viewer through a virtual catalog of the more or less expensive and/or self inflicted mishaps which leasure sailers may call upon themselves in the Stockholm archipelago during the summer.
Events culminate with a match race between two 12 Metre yatchts, the Kookaburra II and the New Sweden being disrupted somewhat by an unidentified undersea vessel
Cast
- Lasse Åberg as Stig-Helmer Olsson
- Jon Skolmen as Ole Bramserud
- Ewa Fröling as Madeleine "Madde" Abrahamsen - Henkan's wife
- Johan Rabaeus as Henrik "Henkan" Abrahamsen - investor
- Per Eggers as Kaj "Kajan" Björkhagen - investor
- Sten Ljunggren as Didrik - investor
- Barbro Hiort af Ornäs as Stig-Helmer's mother
References
- "SOS - en segelsällskapsresa" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Database. 25 December 1988. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
Footnotes
- à la the Mobro 4000
- being a running gag and a Chekhov's gun throughout the film
External links
- SOS – En segelsällskapsresa at IMDb
- SOS – En segelsällskapsresa at the Swedish Film Institute Database
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