''Happy Vestköping'' (Swedish: ''Lyckliga Vestköping'') is a 1937 Swedish

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directed and co-written by

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and starring Isa Quensel,

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and

Nils Wahlbom Nils Wahlbom (October 28, 1886 – October 24, 1937) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in around forty films including ''The Women Around Larsson'' (1934).Larsson & Marklund p.127 Selected filmography * ''The Tales of Ensign Stål (film), The ...

.Wallengren p.54

Synopsis

The small Swedish town of Vestköping awaits the arrival of Justus Napoleon Rosén, who had emigrated to the United States many years earlier and has reportedly become very wealthy, while the town itself has struggled in recent years on the back of the Vestköping mine doing poorly.

Cast

* Isa Quensel as Ann-Marie Brandt *

as Lennart Rosén *

as Uncle Justus Napoleon Rosén * Tollie Zellman as Vivi Rosén *

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as Theodor Rosén * John W. Brunius as Skotte, banker *

Eric Abrahamsson Eric Abrahamsson (13 April 1890 – 3 November 1942) was a Swedish actor and comedian. He appeared in over fifty films between 1917 and 1942. He began his acting career with silent films and later acted in “talkies”. He often worked with fe ...

as Edvard Claesson * Charley Paterson as Mayor * Georg Funkquist as Hotel manager *

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as Author Rolf Gånge *

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as Department manager *

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as Worker at the railway station *

as Secretary *

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as Torphammar *

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as Bank clerk * Bertil Ehrenmark as Unemployed * Georg Fernqvist as Mayor's secretary * Millan Fjellström as Woman reading a news article * Wictor Hagman as Janitor at City Hall *

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as Bell boy * Sten Hedlund as Secretary * Gösta Hillberg as Office manager * Per Hugo Jacobsson as Unemployed * Håkan Jahnberg as Anne-Marie's secretary * Nils Johannisson as Hotel clerk * Erik Johansson as Worker *

Magnus Kesster Magnus Kesster (29 July 1901 – 15 April 1975) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1937 and 1957. Selected filmography * '' The Pale Count'' (1937) * '' Happy Vestköping'' (1937) * '' A Cruise in the Albertina'' (1 ...

as Westman * Sven Kihlberg as American in telephone * John Lindén as Young man asking for Justus Rosén * Ingrid Luterkort as Rosén's maid * Gösta Lycke as Thrane *

Holger Löwenadler Holger Carl Minton Löwenadler (1 April 1904 – 18 June 1977) was a Swedish film actor. He starred in Ingmar Bergman's '' A Ship to India'' (1947). He appeared in '' Divorced'' (1951), which was written by Bergman. Other appearances inclu ...

as Krohn * Otto Malmberg as Cashier * Arthur Natorp as Bank clerk *

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as Woman in the waiting room * Edla Rothgardt as Woman reading a news article * Robert Ryberg as Fire captain * Harald Svensson as Man in the waiting room * Eric von Gegerfelt as Bank customer *

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as Guest in Rådhussalen

References

Bibliography

* Wallengren, Ann-Kristin. '' Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film''. Nordic Academic Press, 2014.

External links

* 1937 films 1937 comedy films Swedish comedy films 1930s Swedish-language films Swedish black-and-white films Films directed by Ragnar Arvedson 1930s Swedish films {{1930s-Sweden-film-stub