Night Games (1966)

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Original title	Nattlek
Swedish release title	Nattlek
International title	Night Games
Distribution title	Juegos de noche (Spanien) Night Games (Storbritannien) Nachtspiele (titel på tyska på digitaliserad kopia 2016) Jeux de nuit (titel på franska på digitaliserad kopia 2016)
Working title	Längtan

Director	Mai Zetterling
Screenplay	Mai Zetterling David Hughes
Producer	Göran Lindgren
Production Manager	Lena Malmsjö
Director of Photography	Rune Ericson
Music	Jan Johansson Georg Riedel
Art Director	Jan Boleslaw
Film Editor	Paul Davies
Production Mixer	Per-Olof Pettersson (as P.O. Pettersson)
Assistant Director	Peter Hald
Advisor	Fredrik von Feilitzen (medicinsk rådgivare)
Script Supervisor	Kerstin Berg
Adaptation	Marianne Höök (krediterad för "översättning")
Unit Manager	Christer Abrahamsen
Camera Operator	Björn Thermænius
First Assistant Cameraman	Curt Persson
Still Photographer	David Hughes
Negative Cutter	Barbro Lidell
Orchestra	Arne Domnérus orkester
Orchestra Leader	Arne Domnérus
Propman	Sven Björling
Costume Designer	Birgitta Hahn
Boom Operator	Lennart Engholm
Designed by	Bengt Serenander (ej krediterad)

Ingrid Thulin	Irene, modern
Keve Hjelm	Jan som vuxen
Jörgen Lindström	Jan, 12 år
Lena Brundin	Mariana
Naima Wifstrand	Astrid
Monica Zetterlund	Lotten
Lauritz Falk	Bruno
Rune Lindström	Albin
Christian Bratt	Erland
Lissi Alandh	Melissa
Axel Fritz	Alex
Willy Koblanck	Doktorn
Britt Marie Råberg	En sköterska
Georg Årlin	Dickson
Cécile Ossbahr
Anette Almén
Chris Wahlström
Cleo Boman
Anita Hedström
Bo Hederström
Fylgia Zadig
Nalle Knutsson
Monique Ernstdotter
Harry Schein	gäst på festen
Bo Jonsson	gäst på festen
Ragnar Arvedson

Production Company	Sandrew Film & Teater AB
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Sandrew Film & Teater AB
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2017
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB	2008

Jan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home. While there he flashes back to his childhood, twenty years before when he lived an unfettered life watched over by a strange great-aunt and a hedonistic and often neglectful mother and father. In particular he remembers watching his mother give birth to a stillborn child after refusing to go to the hospital in the middle of a party and his sexual obsession with his mother which included being caught by her while he was masturbating while listening to her read a bedtime story. In the present, his relationship with his fiancée grows more strained as his past begins to affect the way he acts in the present.

Censorship number	104636
Date	1966-07-18
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2875 meters

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Optical mono
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2875 meter
Length in minutes	105 min
Reels	6 reels
Dialogue	Swedish

Original title	Night Games (Novel)
Author	Mai Zetterling

Penningby slott, Roslagen

First showing	1966-09-02		Venice	Italy	105 min	(inom ramen för biennalen)
Release in Sweden	1966-09-12	Royal		Sweden	105 min
TV showing	1996-04-28	Kanal 5		Sweden	101 min
	1997-02-19	Kanal 5		Sweden	101 min
	2000-10-10	SVT1		Sweden	101 min
	2002-08-12	SVT2		Sweden	101 min
	2003-03-15	SVT1		Sweden	101 min
DVD release	2008-04-09			Sweden
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	2010-01-30
	2010-02-11
	2010-04-17
	2010-04-22
TV showing	2013-08-14	SVT2		Sweden
Cinematheque screening	2015-04-05	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	2015-04-05
TV showing	2019-11-25	SVT1		Sweden
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	2022-08-25		Stockholm	Sweden
	2022-09-20		Gothenburg	Sweden
	2022-10-04		Malmö	Sweden

Festival Award	Venice	1966			(hedersdiplom)

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Night Games (1966)

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Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2853

Element type	Print
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	35 mm
Length	2875

Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Duplicate positive
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Original picture negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Sound negative
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Final mix
Item base	Acetate
Carrier type	17.5 mm

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	NATTLEK en film av Mai Zetterling med...
Tryckeri	Uddeholms Offset
Designed by	Leonardo Da Vinci

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	NATTLEK en film av Mai Zetterling med...
Tryckeri	Robert E. Petersen offset-bogtryck

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	Night Games

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	1

Type	Press Cuttings

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	Längtan. Ett filmmanuskript av Mai Zetterling, David Hughes.
Extent	115 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Jeux nocturnes.
Extent	41 s.
Language	French

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Film 292 von Mai Zetterling / David Hughes. Deutsche Dialogliste.
Extent	19 s.
Language	German

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Nattlek. Night games. English dialogue list.
Extent	23 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Night games. English subtitles.
Extent	18 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Nattlek. Film 292. Av Mai Zetterling / David Hughes. Maj-juni 1966 efter filmens tonband.
Extent	16 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	292 Nattlek. Av Mai Zetterling / David Hughes. Svensk dialoglista.
Extent	18 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	French

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	German

Black and white print	SET
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Danish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Danish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	French

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	German

Sound type	Sound
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	DCP
Length in minutes	105 min
Dialogue	Swedish

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	DCP

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	WAV

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	WAV

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	ProRes

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	H264