Hugo and Josefin (1967)

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Original title	Hugo och Josefin
Swedish release title	Hugo och Josefin
International title	Hugo and Josefin
Distribution title	Hugo und Josefin (Västtyskland) Hugo y Josefina (Spanien) Hugo et Joséphine (Frankrike)

Director	Kjell Grede
Screenplay	Maria Gripe Kjell Grede
Producer	Göran Lindgren
Director of Photography	Lasse Björne (as Lars Björne)
Music	Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist (as Torbjörn Lundquist)
Production Designer	- (ingen)
Film Editor	Lars Hagström
Production Mixer	Lennart Engholm
Assistant Director	Jutta Ekman
Script Supervisor	Ulla Stattin
Unit Manager	Boarne Vibenius (as Bo A. Vibenius)
Camera Operator	Lasse Björne (as Lars Björne)
First Assistant Cameraman	Lars Johnsson
Still Photographer	Lars Johnsson
Musical Arrangement	Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist (as Torbjörn Lundquist)
Musician	Roland Bengtsson (gitarrsolist)
Propman	Jutta Ekman
Costume Designer	Eva-Lisa Nelstedt
Boom Operator	Bengt Kåring
Sound Effects	Lars Hagström Bengt Kåring
Re-recording Mixer	Olle Jakobsson
Other Crew	Pierre Lindstedt (filmarbetare) Ulf Sörenson (filmarbetare)

Fredrik Becklén	Hugo Andersson
Marie Kylling Persson (as Marie Öhman)	Josefin (Jenny Grå)
Beppe Wolgers	Gudmarsson, trädgårdsmästare, Hugos morbror
Inga Landgré	Josefins mor
Helena Brodin	fröken Ingrid Sund, lärarinnan
Bellan Roos	Lyra, den ensamma tanten på cykel
Karl Carlsson	Karl Carlsson
Tord Stål	Josefins far (röst)

Production Company	Sandrew Film & Teater AB
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Sandrew Film & Teater AB	1967
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2019
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB	2008
Laboratory	FilmTeknik AB

Hugo and Josephine has entered the halls of Swedish film history as a true classic, considered by many as the best Swedish children’s film of all time. Based on the books of Maria Gripe, one of Sweden’s most popular children’s authors, the film was directed by Kjell Grede, who co-wrote the script with Gripe. Hugo and Josephine heralded in a new era in Swedish children’s films. This film was produced at a time when children’s culture was a hot topic in Sweden, involving a debate which demanded a new kind of children’s culture, one which presented children with a more honest version of reality, which took children seriously and which offered them meaningful experiences. In other words, there was a demand for less of the idealised world with which children were so commonly presented. This debate was popular in the 1970s, while Hugo and Josephine was released a few years before in 1967. Gripe and Grede told a consistent tale through Josephine’s perspective, and dared to address difficult issues, exposing Josephine’s childhood with all the complexities a childhood possesses.

Censorship number	106187
Date	1967-11-24
Classification	Suitable for all audiences
Original length	2255 meters

Aspect ratio	1.37:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Optical mono
Colour type	Colour
Colour system	Eastman Color
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2255 meter
Length in minutes	82 min
Reels	4 reels
Dialogue	Swedish

Original title	Josefin (Children's book)
Author	Maria Gripe

Original title	Hugo och Josefin (Children's book)
Author	Maria Gripe

Original title	Hugo (Children's book)
Author	Maria Gripe

				1967-06	1967-09
Kårsta	Vallentuna kommun	Sweden
Kårsta, Backa Gård	Vallentuna kommun	Sweden

Release in Sweden	1967-12-16	Royal	Gothenburg	Sweden	82 min
	1967-12-16	Royal	Linköping	Sweden	82 min
	1967-12-16	Saga	Mjölby	Sweden	82 min
	1967-12-16	Grand	Stockholm	Sweden	82 min
First showing	1967-12-16	Royal	Gothenburg	Sweden	82 min
	1967-12-16	Royal	Linköping	Sweden	82 min
	1967-12-16	Saga	Mjölby	Sweden	82 min
	1967-12-16	Grand	Stockholm	Sweden	82 min
Other showing	1969		Warsaw	Poland
TV showing	1995-09-30	Femman		Sweden	79 min
	1999-01-02	SVT1		Sweden	79 min
	2001-01-21	SVT1		Sweden	79 min
	2003-01-07	SVT1		Sweden	79 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2005-05-31
DVD release	2008-01-30			Sweden	79 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2010-02-24
TV showing	2010-07-06	SVT1		Sweden	79 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2010-10-24
TV showing	2012-12-18	SVT1		Sweden
Festival showing	2014-03-11	Spegeln A	Malmö	Sweden		BUFF filmfestival.
TV showing	2014-08-18	SVT1		Sweden
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2014-09-28
TV showing	2017-01-07	SVT2		Sweden
	2019-03-26	SVT1		Sweden
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2022-02-27		Stockholm	Sweden

Original title	Härlig är jorden
Lyrics	Bernhard Severin Ingemann	(dansk text 1850 - "Dejlig er Jorden")
	Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg	(svensk text 1884)
Musical Arrangement	Jan Yngwe
Singer	Marie Öhman	(repris)

Original title	Din klara sol går åter opp
Composer	Johann Georg Störl	(1710)
Lyrics	Johan Olof Wallin	(svensk text 1814)
Singer	kör	(barnkör)

Original title	Morgon mellan fjällen
Composer	Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck	(melodi 1 1814))
	Karl Heinrich Ernst Hauer	(melodi 2 före 1852)
Lyrics	Betty Ehrenborg-Posse	(svensk text 1852 efter amerikanskt original)
	-	(okänd amerikansk textförfattare)
Singer	kör	(barnkör)

Original title	Domaredansen

Original title	Symfoni, nr 9, op. 125, d-moll. Sats 4 (Presto) med slutkören "An die Freude"
Composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	(1824)
Lyrics	Friedrich von Schiller	(1787)

Original title	For Unto Us a Child Is Born
Composer	Georg Friedrich Händel
Lyrics	Charles Jennens

Evangelische Filmgilde		1972			(monatsbeste)
Festival Award	Tehran	1970			(hederspris)
	Tehran	1970			(barnfilmer; Grand Prix)
Concha d'Argento	San Sebastián	1968		Kjell Grede	(bästa debutfilm)
Festival Award	Gijon	1968			(barnfilmer; Premio Asturias)
	Barcelona	1968			(färgfilmveckan; utmärkelse)
Prize	Stockholm	1968		Kjell Grede	(SF-stipendium; 2.500 kr))
The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	1968	Best Director	Kjell Grede
	Stockholm	1968	Best Picture		(Svenska Filminstitutets kvalitetsbidrag om 427 969,94 kr)
Chaplin Magazine Award	Stockholm	1967		Kjell Grede

Från spex till sex (1971)	Citation included from	Hugo and Josefin (1967)
Minns ni? (1993)	Citation included from	Hugo and Josefin (1967)
Shortcuts från Sandrews (1999)	Citation included from	Hugo and Josefin (1967)

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Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2265

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2246

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate positive
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate positive
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate positive
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Original picture negative
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2255

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2255

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	HUGO * JOSEFIN Färgfilm av Kjell Grede
Tryckeri	Tryckeri AB Småland

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	HUGO OCH JOSEFIN Färgfilm för dig och dina barn
Tryckeri	Tryckeri AB Småland

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	HUGO * JOSEFIN Färgfilm för dig och dina barn
Tryckeri	Robert E. Petersen offset-bogtryck

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	Zaczarowany swiat dziecinstwa w filmie szedzkim HUFO I JOSEFINA
Designed by	[?] Piwon

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	HUGO * JOSEFIN Färgfilm för dig och dina barn
Tryckeri	American lito

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	HUGO * JOSEFIN Färgfilm för dig och dina barn
Tryckeri	American lito

Type	Press Cuttings

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	Hugo och Josefin av Maria Gripe och Kjell Grede.
Extent	121 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Hugo and Josephine. English dialogue list.
Extent	19 s. + 1 s. dialoglista trailer i ett ex.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Hugo och Josefin av Kjell Grede efter Maria Gripes böcker om Hugo och Josefin.
Extent	24 s. + 1 s. trailer.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Peripheral material

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Hugo und Josefine von Kjell Grede nach den Büchern von Maria Gripe um Hugo und Josefine.
Extent	30 s.
Language	German

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Subtítulos de - Hugo y Josefina.
Extent	15 s. + 1 s. dialoglista trailer.
Language	Spanish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Hugo and Josephine.
Extent	15 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Hugo and Josephine. English subtitles.
Extent	14 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	English

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	Hugo och Josefin av Maria Gripe och Kjell Grede.
Extent	121 s.
Language	Swedish

Black and white print	18
Colour prints	4
Slides	1
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Sound type	Sound
Colour type	Colour
Length in minutes	83 min
Dialogue	Swedish

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	ProRes

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digital audio
Carrier type	WAV

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	DCP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	H264