''Games of Love and Loneliness'' ( sv, Den allvarsamma leken) is a 1977 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-g ...

directed by Anja Breien.

Lil Terselius Lil Poldi Terselius (5 November 1944 – 26 October 2021 Retrieved 27 October 2021 ) was a Swedish stage and film actress. At the 14th Guldbagge Awards she won the award for Best Actress for her role in ''Games of Love and Loneliness''. She wo ...

won the award for

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress awar ...

at the

14th Guldbagge Awards The 14th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 1977 and 1978, and took place on 18 September 1978. ''The Adventures of Picasso'' directed by Tage Danielsson was presented with the a ...

. It is based on the 1912 novel '' The Serious Game'' by

Hjalmar Söderberg Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg (2 July 1869 – 14 October 1941) was a Swedish novelist, short story writer, playwright and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Sto ...

Cast

as Lydia Stille * Stefan Ekman as Arvid Stjärnblom *

Katarina Gustafsson Katarina may refer to: Geography *Katarina-Sofia borough, a borough in central Stockholm *Topol pri Medvodah, a settlement in the Municipality of Medvode, Slovenia, known as Katarina People *Katarina (given name) * Katarina (''Doctor Who''), a ch ...

as Dagmar Randel *

Chatarina Larsson Ingrid Chatarina Larsson is a Swedish actress born on 2 April 1947 in Stockholm. Career Larsson's first appearance was with her father, in Lisebergsteatern in 1964, in the variety show ''Far i luften''. She studied at drama school in Malmö ...

as Marta Brehm *

Birgitta Andersson Ulla Birgitta Helena Andersson (born ''Andersson''; 20 April 1933) is a Swedish actress and comedian. Career Andersson made her breakthrough by acting in various variety shows with Povel Ramel and Karl Gerhard. She was part of the group around H ...

as Hilma Randel *

Hans Alfredson Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson (28 June 1931 – 10 September 2017) was a Swedish actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse & Tage and their p ...

as Freutiger *

Allan Edwall Johan Allan Edwall (25 August 1924 – 7 February 1997) was a Swedish actor, director, author, composer and singer, best-known outside Sweden for the small roles he played in some of Ingmar Bergman's films, such as ''Fanny and Alexander'' (198 ...

as Markel *

Ernst Günther Ernst Harry Ingemar Günther (3 June 1933 – 8 December 1999) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 66 films and television shows between 1962 and 1999. He starred in the 1974 film ''Gangsterfilmen'', which entered into the 25th Berlin Inte ...

as Jacob Randel *

Peter Schildt Ernst Peter Jurgen Schildt (born 9 June 1951 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor, screenwriter, film director, theatre director, etc. Schildt began acting at Vår teater, a children's theatre in Stockholm, as a child. He participated in theatre ...

as Lidner * Stig Ossian Ericson as Rissler * Palle Granditsky as Anders Stille *

Erland Josephson Erland Josephson (; 15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos. Life and career J ...

as Doncker

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* * 1977 films 1977 drama films Swedish drama films 1970s Swedish-language films Films directed by Anja Breien Films based on Swedish novels Remakes of Swedish films 1970s Swedish films {{1970s-Sweden-film-stub