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A Swedish Tiger (film)

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A Swedish Tiger
Directed byGustaf Edgren
Written byGustaf Edgren
Oscar Rydqvist
Produced byInge Ivarson
StarringEdvin Adolphson
Erik Berglund
Margareta Fahlén
CinematographyMartin Bodin
Edited byOscar Rosander
Music bySixten Ehrling
Production
company
Kungsfilm
Distributed byKungsfilm
Release date
  • 18 May 1948 (1948-05-18)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

A Swedish Tiger (Swedish: En svensk tiger) is a 1948 Swedish war drama film directed by Gustaf Edgren and starring Edvin Adolphson, Erik Berglund and Margareta Fahlén.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall. Its title refers to the wartime propaganda campaign A Swedish Tiger encouraging inhabitants to avoid careless talk.

Synopsis

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British intelligence discover that a Swedish actor in Stockholm is a doppelganger of a British general and decide to recruit him as a decoy. They lure him to London by offering him a part in Othello.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Fawkes p.98

Bibliography

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  • Fawkes, Richard. Opera on Film. Duckworth, 2000.
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