''Klassfesten'' ("The Class Reunion") is a 2002

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

film written and directed by

Måns Herngren Måns Herngren (born 20 April 1965) is a Swedish actor and noted director. Almost all of his films are done together with his friend Hannes Holm. He is the older brother to actor and comedian Felix Herngren. Måns Herngren was married to Lena P ...

and

Hannes Holm Hannes Martin Holm (born 26 November 1962 in Lidingö), is a Swedish director and screenwriter. He makes almost all of his films with Måns Herngren. Selected filmography *1983 - ''Interrail'' *1983 - '' Vidöppet'' (Wide Open) (TV-series) *1 ...

. The film stars Björn Kjellman,

Cecilia Frode Pia Ingela Cecilia Frode is a Swedish actress born on 14 August 1970 in Linköping. Career Frode graduated from the theatre school in Malmö in 1994. She also won a Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actress in the Swedish comedy film Klassfe ...

Inday Ba Inday Ba (10 August 1972 – 20 April 2005), also known as N'Deaye Ba, was a Swedish-British film, stage, and television actress of Senegalese descent born in Gothenburg, Sweden. One of her most notable Swedish on-screen roles was as Hillevi in ...

, Henrik Hjelt, Lisa Lindgren and

Ulf Friberg Ulf Sven Friberg (born 4 October 1962) is a Swedish actor, screenwriter, theatre and film director. Friberg studied in Malmö 1986–89. After that he was engaged at Stockholm City Theatre. He has also been engaged at the Orion Theatre in Stock ...

. The film was released on 27 February 2002 in Sweden.

Plot

20 years after Magnus Edkvist ( Björn Kjellman) graduated from the ninth grade in

Hagsätra Hagsätra is a quarter in Söderort, the southern part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It borders with the quarters of Älvsjö, Örby and Rågsved in Stockholm, as well as Stuvsta in neighboring Huddinge Municipality. Hagsätra covers a ...

, he gets an invitation to a class reunion. He declines the invitation, because he doesn't want to relive some of the most embarrassing moments of his life. Magnus rather stays home with his wife Lollo (

) and his daughter. But when Magnus starts to think about his teenage crush, Hillevi (

), and whether she will go or not. He decides to go to the reunion, in hope that Hillevi will show up.

Cast

* Björn Kjellman as Magnus Edkvist *

as Hillevi *

as Lollo Edkvist, Magnus wife * Lisa Lindgren as Jeanette *

as Tommy * Henrik Hjelt as Ove *Jimmy Lindström as Lill-Micke *Johan Ehn as Jonas *Jessica Forsberg as Pia *

Ingrid Luterkort Carola Ingrid Margareta Segerstedt Luterkort (''née'' Eklundh, 28 June 1910 – 3 August 2011) was a Swedish actress and stage director, whose professional career spanned from the 1930s until 2010. Born in Lund, Luterkort studied in the Royal D ...

as The teacher *Urban Bergsten as Leffe lort *Jan Åström as Micke P *Frida Öhman as Alva, Magnus and Lollos daughter *Oscar Taxén as Young Magnus *Sacha Baptiste as Young Hillevi *Anders Timell as Fabbe

Music

The music in the film is "Calleth You, Cometh I" and "Topsy Kaiser", both songs made by the Swedish band The Ark. The Ark's singer

Ola Salo Ola Salo (born Rolf Ola Anders Svensson; 19 February 1977) is a Swedish rock musician, and the lead vocalist of Swedish glam rock band The Ark. Early life He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, ...

has written the two songs. He wrote "Calleth You, Cometh I" together with Peter Kvint.

Accolades

Cecilia Frode won the

Guldbagge Award The Guldbagge Awards ( sv, Guldbaggen, en, Gold scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the nam ...

in 2003 for Best Supporting Actress.

External links

* * {{Hannes Holm 2002 films Swedish comedy-drama films 2002 comedy-drama films Films directed by Hannes Holm 2000s Swedish films