A Rational Solution (2009)

Media (2)

Original title	Det enda rationella
Swedish release title	Det enda rationella
International title	A Rational Solution
Working title	De rationella Äktenskapsskolan

Director	Jörgen Bergmark
Screenplay	Jens Jonsson
Producer	Helena Danielsson
Director of Photography	Anders Bohman
Music	Nathan Larson
Production Designer	Peter Bävman
Film Editor	Mattias Morheden
Co-producer	Karl Baumgartner Raimond Goebel Tero Kaukomaa Stefano Massenzi Jens Jonsson Jörgen Bergmark Gunnar Carlsson
Production Assistant	Susanne Lundberg
Film Commissioner	Lisa Ohlin (Svenska Filminstitutet)
Second Assistant Cameraman	Martin Klevegård
Best Boy	Martin Lang
Assistant Production Designer	Pernilla Olsson
Costume Designer	Paola Billberg (as Paola Billberg Johansson)
Make-up Supervisor	Ewalena Jönsson (as Ewalena Jönsson Lunde)

Rolf Lassgård	Erland Fjellgren
Pernilla August	Karin
Stina Ekblad	May Fjellgren
Claes Ljungmark	Sven-Erik
Magnus Roosmann	prästen
Anki Lidén
Magnus Eriksson
Johan Storgård

Production Company	Hepp Film AB
Copyright	Hepp Film AB	2009
	Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH	2009
	Blind Spot Pictures Oy	2009
	Lucky Red SRL	2009
	Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)	2009
	Arte Deutschland TV GmbH	2009
Co-Production Company	Lucky Red SRL
	Blind Spot Pictures Oy
	Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH
	Sveriges Television AB
	Jens Jonsson AB
	Film i Skåne AB
	Filmimperiet Sverige AB
	SES Film Sound Oy
	Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH
	Angel Films Oy
Advance allocations	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet
	Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Nordisk Film AB	2009
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Nordisk Film AB	2010
Sales	The Match Factory

A Rational Solution is a tragicomic drama about active church member and paper mill worker Erland Fjellgren, who is suddenly overcome with a wild passion: he falls in love with his best friend’s wife. His rational solution – for everyone concerned to sit down, discuss the situation and then all try to live together in his and his wife’s house – sets them on a fateful course that threatens to plunge them all into the abyss.

Censorship number	146590
Date	2009-04-08
Classification	Allowed from age 7
Original length	2863 meters
Notes	Aktlängder: 500, 509, 571, 508, 408, 367.

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Dolby Digital
Colour type	Colour
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2683 meter
Length in minutes	98 min
Reels	6 reels

Ystad Studios

Sweden

Inspelning planerad till hösten 2007.

2008-04-21

Release in Sweden	2009-09-25			Sweden	105 min
Festival showing	2010-02-05	Stadsbiblioteket	Gothenburg	Sweden	98 min	33:e Göteborg International Film Festival.
DVD release	2010-05-12			Sweden
TV showing	2011-11-11	SVT1		Sweden
	2015-06-09	SVT1		Sweden

The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2010	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Claes Ljungmark
Nominated for the Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2010	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Stina Ekblad
Festival Award	Arras	2010			(The Golden Atlas: bästa europeiska film / Best European Film, Festival International du Film d’Arras, Frankrike)
The Norddeutscher Rundfunk Award	Lûbeck	2009			(NDR-priset. Första pris vid 51 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Tyskland)

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Element type	Duplicate positive
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2863

Element type	Sound positive
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2863

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella. Manus Jens Jonsson. Regi Jörgen Bergmark. (2007-01-23).
Extent	102 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella. Av Jens Jonsson. Regiversion 1.
Extent	112 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella. Manusförfattare: Jens Jonsson. Regissör: Jörgen Bergmark. Version 7. 2007-08-16.
Extent	101 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella. Av Jens Jonsson. Inspelningsversion 2. 8 april 2008.
Extent	105 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Dialogmanus. Det enda rationella. 080929 Susanne Lundberg. Rollnamn tillagda av Carl Moberg 090610.
Extent	38 s. + 11 s. för- och eftertext samt musiklista.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella av Jens Jonsson. Regiversion 28/11 2007.
Extent	105 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella. Version 9 2008-01-13
Extent	105 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	De rationella av Jens Jonsson. Inspelningsversion.
Extent	100 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Peripheral material
Extent	2 s.

Script type	För- och eftertexter
Extent	9 s.

Script type	Peripheral material
Extent	2 s.

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish