Cinema
The Charter Trip
Sällskapsresan
Lasse Åberg · 1980
Synopsis
It is Christmas, and Stig-Helmer Olsson, a shy bachelor who is afraid of flying, goes on his first package holiday to the Canary Islands. Before departure, the psychiatrist who treats him, Doctor Levander, entrusts him with a gift-wrapped package to deliver there: unknown to him, it contains undeclared money. At the airport, Stig-Helmer meets Ole, a Norwegian who will share his room. The group also includes two sisters, Siv and Maj-Britt, a young married couple, and two friends, Berra and Robban, who spend the whole stay looking for a bar that sells eighty-proof rum.
Context
The second feature film of its author, directed with Peter Hald and written with the producer Bo Jonsson, it takes up almost unchanged, under another name, the character of his first film. To prepare the screenplay, Åberg questioned guides and air hostesses. Critics were rather negative, but Ingmar Bergman said he liked this return of a popular Swedish cinema. The film was shown at the Moscow festival in 1981 and began a series of five sequels with the same character.
Who it is for
One hundred and seven minutes, in Swedish. A popular comedy many of whose lines have become proverbial in Sweden.
Prizes and reception
The most-watched Swedish film in cinemas, with more than two million admissions; it earned its author the Ingmar Bergman Prize in 1981.