Basic facts

Titles

Original title
Swedish release title
Distribution title

Crew

Director
Screenplay
Production Manager
Director of Photography
Music
Art Director
Film Editor
Production Mixer
Musical Arrangement
Make-up Supervisor
Boom Operator
Titles

Cast

Sture Lagerwall Sture Ahrengren, arkitekt
Signe Hasso Kristina Ahrengren, Stures hustru
Stig Järrel Baltsar Ekberg, byggnadsingenjör
Ilse-Nore Tromm Helena Ekberg, Baltars hustru
Gösta Cederlund professor Hagstam, arkitekt
Carl Barcklind doktor Frodde, Stures gamla konfirmationslärare
Torsten Hillberg generalkonsul Odelgren
- Ej krediterade:
Gunnar Björnstrand läkare
Gunnar Olsson Bogren på arkitektkontoret
Axel Högel åttabarnsfadern på BB
Stig Johanson byggnadsarbetare
Karl Erik Flens byggnadsarbetare
Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs byggnadsarbetare
Ernst Brunman byggmästare Bengtsson
Stina Sorbon Stures sekreterare
Lili Ziedner fröken Edqvist, Hagstams sekreterare
John Ericsson man vid bilolyckan
Arne Lindblad man vid bilolyckan
Sickan Castegren expediten i tobaksaffären
Birgit Chenon servitrisen på fiket
Signe Lundberg-Settergren arrendatorsfrun
John Westin forlossningsläkaren i telefon

Companies

Production Company Terrafilms Produktions AB
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm) AB Terrafilm 1939
Laboratory AB Film-Labor

Plot summary

The young architect Sture Ahrengren is happily married to Kristina. He wants to start a family, but she prefers to wait until he has a better income. After a disagreement with his boss Professor Hagstam, Sture resigns. He meets an old friend, Baltsar Ekberg, a structural engineer in Stockholm. Ekberg has been commissioned to build a large house for a consul general and arranges for Sture to be entrusted with its design. Baltsar’s alluring wife Helena then enters the picture and stirs up trouble when she arrives at Baltsar's sports cabin which Sture has borrowed. Later Sture and Kristina are involved in a traffic accident and Kristina is slightly injured. Professor Hagman has medical problems of his own and summons Kristina to say that her husband can become his partner if he wants to comes back.

Swedish censorship / rating

Censorship number 59209
Date 1939-02-22
Classification Allowed from age 15
Original length 2480 meters
Notes Aktlängder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.


Technical specifications

Aspect ratio 1.37:1
Sound type Sound
Sound system Intensity sound
Colour type Black and white
Carrier type 35 mm
Frames per second 24
Length in metres 2480 meters
Length in minutes 91 min
Reels 5 reels


Original work

Original title Din nästas hustru (Novel)
Author Hilding Östlund


Production location

1938 1938
AB Sandrew-Ateljéerna Stockholm Sweden
Stockholm Sweden (exteriörer)

Release dates

Release in Sweden 1939-02-23 Rialto Norrköping Sweden 91 min
First showing 1939-02-23 Rialto Norrköping Sweden 91 min
Release in Stockholm 1939-03-16 Royal Stockholm Sweden 91 min
TV showing 1956-12-05 Stockholmssändaren Sweden 87 min
1956-12-06 Göteborgssändaren Sweden 87 min
1967-07-28 Sweden 87 min
Cinematheque screening 1979-08-26 Sweden
Other showing 1989-03-01
TV showing 1989-07-11 TV3 Sweden 87 min
Other showing 1996-11-13
1998-07-02
TV showing 1998-07-17 SVT1 Sweden 87 min
2001-09-17 SVT1 Sweden 87 min
2002-07-22 SVT1 Sweden 87 min
2004-06-29 SVT1 Sweden 87 min
2017-02-06 SVT1 Sweden
2019-04-15 SVT1 Sweden
2021-04-13 SVT1 Sweden
VOD release 2023-04-28 SVT Play Sweden Antal dagar på SVT Play: 30
2023-07-07 SVT Play Sweden Antal dagar på SVT Play 30
TV showing 2023-07-13 SVT1 Sweden

Soundtrack listing

Original title Smickra en kvinna
Composer Ernfrid Ahlin (1939)
Lyrics Roland (1939)
Singer Ilse-Nore Tromm


Original title Santa Lucia
Composer Teodoro Cottrau (1850/51)
Lyrics Teodoro Cottrau (italiensk text 1850/51)
Arvid Rosén (svensk text "Natten går tunga fjät")
Sigrid Elmblad (svensk text "Sankta Lucia, ljusklara hägring")
Singer Signe Hasso


Holdings Film

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

Element type Print
Item base Acetate
Carrier type 35 mm
Length 2476


Element type Duplicate positive
Carrier type 35 mm


Element type Original picture negative
Item base Nitrate
Carrier type 35 mm


Element type Sound negative
Item base Nitrate
Carrier type 35 mm


Holdings Posters

Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 2
Poster title VI TVÅ
Printing house Ljunglöfs
Designed by GöstaX Åberg


Size Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity 2
Poster title VI TVÅ
Printing house Wernqvist & Co boktr. AB


Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 2
Poster title VI TVÅ
Printing house Ljunglöfs
Designed by GöstaX Åberg
? Lange


Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 1
Poster title WIR ZWEI
Printing house Offsetdruck Paul Grasnick
Designed by ? Geffers


Size About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity 1
Poster title VI TO
Printing house Dyva & Jeppesens bogtrykkeri aktieselskab
Designed by Erik Strand


Holdings Archive materials

Type Press Cuttings


Holdings Stills

Black and white print set
Colour prints No
Behind the scenes prints 1
Slides No
Digital images Yes
Album Yes


Holdings Promotion materials

Type Program/Reklamtryck



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