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Året var 1961
Film / 2011

Året var 1961

Directed by Jonas FohlinKjell TunegårdOlle Häger
DocumentaryHistory

★ 5.0/10Audience rating

1961 - the year when Swedish UN soldiers are in the crisis-ridden Congo and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash. Swedish film's biggest hit, "Are there angels?", has its premiere with Christina Schollin in one of the roles. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space and the Volvo P 1800 appears on the roads. Ewy Rosqvist is a rally ace and in April the regal ship Vasa is lifted up after …

The story

1961 - the year when Swedish UN soldiers are in the crisis-ridden Congo and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash. Swedish film's biggest hit, "Are there angels?", has its premiere with Christina Schollin in one of the roles. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space and the Volvo P 1800 appears on the roads. Ewy Rosqvist is a rally ace and in April the regal ship Vasa is lifted up after 333 years at the bottom of Stockholm's stream. In August, the Berlin Wall is built and outside the Stockholm archipelago, Radio Nord broadcasts music and news.

Cast

Jonas FohlinNarrator (voice) Christina SchollinSelf Cliff RichardSelf (archive footage) Jack S. KotschackSelf (archive footage) Ewy Rosqvist-KorffSelf Dag HammarskjöldSelf (archive footage) Yuri GagarinSelf (archive footage) Gullan BornemarkSelf (archive footage) Adolf EichmannSelf (archive footage) Putte KockSelf (archive footage) Lill LindforsSelf (archive footage) Gert GustafssonSelf
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Torsten StålnackeSelf Lars LångströmSelf Tamara FilatovaSelf Pelle PettersonSelf Lennart HellsingSelf Owe JonssonSelf

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