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Året var 1956
1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus carrying schoolchildren is crushed and off New York m/s Stockholm collides with Andrea Doria. Frances Bulwark runs its last race and Swedish UN soldiers are flown to Suez. But most of all, it is the year of the Hungarian refugees.
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1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus carrying schoolchildren is crushed and off New York m/s Stockholm collides with Andrea Doria. Frances Bulwark runs its last race and Swedish UN soldiers are flown to Suez. But most of all, it is the year of the Hungarian refugees.
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Cast
Jonas FohlinNarrator (voice)
Lars OrupSelf
Frances BulwarkSelf (archive footage)
Sixten JernbergSelf (archive footage)
Grace KellySelf (archive footage)
Prince Rainier III of MonacoSelf (archive footage)
Elvis PresleySelf (archive footage)
Fess ParkerSelf (archive footage)
Sonja Ruthström-EdströmSelf (archive footage)
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