491 (1964)

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Original title	491
Swedish release title	491
Distribution title	491 (Spanien) 491 (Västtyskland) 491 (Danmark) 491 (Finland) 491 (USA) 490 più 1 (Italien) 491 (Norge)
Title for Swedish DVD release	491

Director	Vilgot Sjöman
Screenplay	Lars Görling
Production Manager	Allan Ekelund
Director of Photography	Gunnar Fischer
Music	Georg Riedel
Art Director	P.A. Lundgren
Film Editor	Lennart Wallén
Production Mixer	Per-Olof Pettersson (as P.O. Pettersson)
Assistant Director	Raymond Lundberg
Script Supervisor	Katinka Faragó (as Katherina Faragó)
Unit Manager	Lars-Owe Carlberg
First Assistant Cameraman	Rolf Holmqvist
Still Photographer	Jan Halldoff
Gaffer	Georg Engstrand (elbas) Sture Arelind Stig Jonsson Claes Börje Wernqvist
Key Grip	Rune Håkansson Yngve Söderlund
Musical Arrangement	Georg Riedel
Propman	Karl-Arne Bergman (as K.A. Bergman)
Costume Designer	Bertha Sånnell
Make-up Supervisor	Britt Falkemo
Wigs	Bengt Ottekil
Boom Operator	Olle Unnerstad

Lars Lind	Krister, socialarbetare
Leif Nymark	Nisse
Stig Törnblom	Egon
Lars Hansson	Pyret
Sven Algotsson	Jingis
Torleif Cederstrand	Slaktarn
Bo Andersson	Fisken
Lena Nyman	Steva
Frank Sundström	inspektören
Åke Grönberg	pastor Mild
Mona Andersson	Kajsa
Jan Blomberg	testaren
Siegfried Wald	tysk sjöman
Wilhelm Fricke	tysk sjöman
Erik Hell	polis
Leif Liljeroth	polis

Production Company	AB Svensk Filmindustri
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	AB Svensk Filmindustri	1964
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2018
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	SF Home Entertainment	2011
Laboratory	FilmTeknik AB

Censorship number	114264
Date	1975-02-12
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2780 meters
Notes	Speltid: 102 minuter. Aktlängder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.

Censorship number	101516
Date	1964-03-05
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2765 meters
Censored length	2727 meters
Notes	Speltid före censurklipp: 101 minuter. Censurklipp: Pyrets könsmonolog och efterföljande replikskifte med Egon, men undantag för Pyrets avslutande replik (om aphuset). Sekvensen med Stevas våldtagning vid båtreliingen. Sekvensen med uppträdet i dagrummet mellan pojkarna och Steva samt efterföljande våldshandlingar mot Steva. Avslutande repliker inklusive hundens flämtningar. (Totalt 38 meter). Speltid efter censurklipp: 100 minuter. Aktlängder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.

Censorship number	101516
Date	1963-12-18
Classification	Banned
Original length	2765 meters
Notes	Aktlängder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	AGA-Baltic
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2765 meter
Length in minutes	101 min
Reels	5 reels

Original title	491 (Novel)
Author	Lars Görling

				1963	1963
Filmstaden	Råsunda	Sweden
	Stockholm	Sweden

Release in Sweden	1964-03-16	Fontänen	Stockholm	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Stockholm	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Östersund	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Palladium	Borås	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Skandia	Borås	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Palladium	Borlänge	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Eskilstuna	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	City	Falun	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Cosmorama	Gothenburg	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Kaparen	Gothenburg	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Halmstad	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Palladium	Helsingborg	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Jönköping	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Karlstad	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Skandia	Karlstad	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Kristianstad	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Linköping	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Forellen	Luleå	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Skandia	Lund	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Alcazar	Malmö	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Amiralen	Malmö	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Aveny	Norrköping	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Norrköping	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Castor	Södertälje	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Trollhättan	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Uppsala	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Skandia	Uppsala	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Grand	Västerås	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Växjö	Sweden	100 min
	1964-03-16	Röda Kvarn	Örebro	Sweden	100 min
TV showing	1979-01-21	TV2		Sweden	97 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2000-02-13
	2002-04-25
DVD release	2011-06-01			Sweden
Cinematheque screening	2014-11-09	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
TV showing	2022-02-03	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-02-26	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-03-31	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-04-15	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-07-31	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-10-06	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-11-13	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-11-23	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-02-02	SF Kanalen		Sweden	110 min
	2023-02-25	SF Kanalen		Sweden	110 min
	2023-03-30	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-04-14	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-07-30	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-10-05	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-11-12	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-11-22	SF Kanalen		Sweden

Original title	Bagatell, piano, a-moll
Composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	(1810)

Original title	Gitarrmusik
Composer	Rune Gustafsson

Original title	Improvisation (Sjöman)
Composer	Vilgot Sjöman

Original title	Skall det bli några stjärnor i kronan jag får/O, min tanke flyr hän ...
Composer	Johannes Alfred Hultman	(1911)
Lyrics	Eliza Edmund Hewitt	(engelsk text 1897)
	Anna Ölander	(svensk text 1911)

Original title	Sonat, piano, op. 35, b-moll, "Sorgmarschsonaten". Sats 3 "Marche funèbre"
Composer	Frédéric Chopin	(1837)

The Swedish Film Institute's Quality Grant	Stockholm	1964			(bidrag om 245 656,06 kr)

Från spex till sex (1971)

Citation included from

491 (1964)

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

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Length	2710

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Element type	Original picture negative opening titles
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Element type	Original picture negative opening titles
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Element type	Intermediate audio recording
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Element type	Final mix
Carrier type	17.5 mm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	491 Sjöman & Görling

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	491 Sjöman & Görling
Tryckeri	Kopia

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	En film av Sjöman & Görling 491
Tryckeri	Ewes Offsettryck

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	491
Tryckeri	Parrot Litho A/S
Designed by	[?] Stevenov

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	491
Tryckeri	Parrot Litho A/S

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	491 ein film von vilgot sjöman und lars görling - verleih schorcht
Tryckeri	FP-Druck-Fotopress

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	It is written that 490 times you can sin and be forgiven. This motion picture is about the 491st. Janus Films presents 491
Tryckeri	FP-Druck-Fotopress

Type	Press Cuttings

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	491. Produktion L-142. Manuskript: Lars Görling. Regissör: Vilgot Sjöman. Film efter Lars Görlings roman.
Extent	201 s. Rollista och innehållsförteckning (2 s.) ingår.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	491. Produktion L-142. Manuskript: Lars Görling. Regissör: Vilgot Sjöman. Film efter Lars Görlings roman.
Extent	224 s. Rollista (1 s.) ingår.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491 a film by Görling and Sjöman. English dialogue list.
Extent	29 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491 a film by Görling and Sjöman. English dialogue list.
Extent	31 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491. English subtitles.
Extent	27 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491. English subtitles.
Extent	28 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491 a film by Lars Görling and Vilgot Sjöman. English dialogue list.
Extent	33 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491. Ein Film von Görling & Sjöman.
Extent	36 s.
Language	German

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	491. Ein Film von Görling & Sjöman.
Extent	33 s.
Language	German

Script type	Peripheral material
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Extent	38 s.
Language	German

Black and white print	SET
Album	Yes

Type	Program/Reklamtryck

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Frames per second	24
Length in minutes	102 min
Dialogue	Swedish

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
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Carrier type	DCP

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Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
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