''No Tomorrow'' (Swedish: ''Ingen morgondag'') is a 1957 Swedish
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Arne Mattsson
Arne Mattsson (2 December 1919 – 28 June 1995) was a Swedish film director.
Biography
Born in Uppsala, the early films of Mattsson were mostly comedies. His biggest success was '' Hon dansade en sommar'' (1951, aka. ''One Summer of Happine ...
and starring
Jarl Kulle
Jarl Lage Kulle (28 February 1927 – 3 October 1997) was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of Maria Kulle.
Kulle was born in the village of Truedstorp, outside Ekeby, Sweden, and was the son of the merchant Nils Kulle a ...
,
Margit Carlqvist
Margit Carlqvist (born 11 February 1932 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. In Sweden she starred in many movies during the 1950s. Internationally, she may be best known for her role in Ingmar Bergman's film, ''Smiles of a Summer Night''.
Sele ...
and
Kolbjörn Knudsen
Kolbjörn Knudsen (13 October 1897 – 8 January 1967) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1928 and 1967.
Selected filmography
* '' Sin'' (1928)
* ''Charlotte Löwensköld'' (1930)
* '' Conflict'' (1937)
* ''Gene ...
.
[Qvist & Von Bagh p.63] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in
Stockholm and
on location in
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...
and
Porkkalanniemi on the
Gulf of Finland. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Bibi Lindström
Bibi Lindström (1904–1984) was a Swedish art director.Vermilye p.122 She designed the sets for more than a hundred film productions.
Selected filmography
* ''Jolly Musicians'' (1932)
* '' The Dangerous Game'' (1933)
* '' Saturday Nights'' (1 ...
. It was adapted by Finnish writer
Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari (; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel '' The Egyptian'' ( fi, Sinuhe egyptiläinen). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stor ...
from his own novel of the same title.
Synopsis
During the
Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, as part of World War II.; sv, fortsättningskriget; german: Fortsetzungskrieg. A ...
Finnish
Captain Viktor Aaltonen it taken prisoner in
Karelia and sent to a
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
prisoner of war camp for many years.
Cast
*
Jarl Kulle
Jarl Lage Kulle (28 February 1927 – 3 October 1997) was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of Maria Kulle.
Kulle was born in the village of Truedstorp, outside Ekeby, Sweden, and was the son of the merchant Nils Kulle a ...
as Viktor Aaltonen
*
Margit Carlqvist
Margit Carlqvist (born 11 February 1932 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. In Sweden she starred in many movies during the 1950s. Internationally, she may be best known for her role in Ingmar Bergman's film, ''Smiles of a Summer Night''.
Sele ...
as Astrid Bergas
*
Kolbjörn Knudsen
Kolbjörn Knudsen (13 October 1897 – 8 January 1967) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1928 and 1967.
Selected filmography
* '' Sin'' (1928)
* ''Charlotte Löwensköld'' (1930)
* '' Conflict'' (1937)
* ''Gene ...
as Bergas
*
Lars Ekborg
Lars Åke Rupert Ekborg (6 June 1926 – 7 October 1969) was a Swedish actor, comedian, and singer.
Ekborg was the father of actors Dan and Anders Ekborg. He died of liver cancer in 1969. He may be heard as the recitor in the 1956 recording of ...
as Raul
*
Allan Edwall as Poet
*
Carl-Olof Alm as Artist
*
Olof Widgren as Doctor Linnmo
*
Gunnar Olsson as Toivo Hietari
*
Jan Olov Andersson as Pojke som pekar ut mordplats
*
Eric Fröling as Socialhjälpstjänsteman
*
Åke Lindman
Åke Leonard Lindman (born Åke Leonard Järvinen; 11 January 1928 – 3 March 2009) was a Finnish director and actor.
In his youth Lindman was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki ...
as Förrymd fånge
*
Tapio Rautavaara
Kaj Tapio Rautavaara (8 March 1915 – 25 September 1979) was a Finnish singer (bass-baritone), athlete and film actor.
Life Early years
Tapio Rautavaara was born in the municipality of Pirkkala (now Nokia), a suburb of the industrial city o ...
as Man singing and playing guitar
*
Anneli Sauli
Anneli is a female given name common in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Norway. It originated as a variation of the name Anna. It is listed by the Finnish Population Register Centre as one of the top 10 most popular female given names ever.
Not ...
as Konstnärens modell
*
Henake Schubak as Bergas betjänt
*
Axel Slangus as Blind tiggare
*
Brita Öberg
Brita Öberg (22 May 1900 – 26 December 1969) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1931 and 1969.
Selected filmography
* '' Kristin Commands'' (1946)
* ''Between Brothers'' (1946)
* ''Son of the Sea'' (1949) ...
as Mrs. Hietari
References
Bibliography
* Cowie, Peter Françoise Buquet, Risto Pitkänen & Godfried Talboom. ''Scandinavian Cinema: A Survey of the Films and Film-makers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden''. Tantivy Press, 1992.
* Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
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1957 films
Swedish drama films
1957 drama films
1950s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Arne Mattsson
Films based on Finnish novels
Films set in Finland
Films shot in Finland
Eastern Front of World War II films
1950s Swedish films
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