''Love and Dynamite'' (Swedish: ''Kärlek och dynamit'') is a 1933 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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed and co-written by O.A.C. Lund and starring

Valdemar Dalquist Valdemar Dalquist (September 23, 1888 – January 20, 1937) was a Swedish stage and film actor.Chandler p.308 Selected filmography * '' Cirkus Bimbini'' (1921) * '' Cavaliers of the Crown'' (1930) * '' Tired Theodore'' (1931) * ''Colourful Pages' ...

, Birgit Sergelius and

Isa Quensel Isa Quensel (21 September 1905 – 3 November 1981) was a Swedish actress and operatic soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scie ...

. It is now considered to be a

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Synopsis

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takes the daughter of Gustafsson, the owner of the

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yard he works at, on an unauthorised cruise and is fired by her father. Later he is able to rescue one of his

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that has run aground by using

dynamite Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and Stabilizer (chemistry), stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish people, Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern German ...

to shift it and Gustafsson becomes reconciled to him marrying his daughter.

Cast

* Steinar Jøranndstad as Ragge *

as Gustafsson *

Signe Lundberg-Settergren Signe Lundberg-Settergren (15 February 1882 – 14 June 1967) was a Swedish stage and film actress.Kwiatkowski p.77 She was born in the Grand Duchy of Finland to Swedish parents, including her father the actor and theatre director Alfred Lundberg. ...

as Mrs. Gustafsson * Birgit Sergelius as Anna-Greta *

as Rosa *

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 Axel *

Einar Fagstad Einar Fagstad (30 October 1899 – 19 February 1961) was a Norwegian–Swedish accordionist, singer, actor and composer. Fagstad was born in Lillehammer and began playing the accordion at the age of four. He trained as a painter and studied at ...

as Olle *

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 Öl-Pelle *

Georg Rydeberg Olof Georg Rydeberg (21 July 1907 – 22 February 1983) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1932 and 1981. He was married to the Finnish actress Birgit Sergelius. Partial filmography * '' International Ma ...

as Ture, insurance agent * Nils Leander as Stranger

References

Bibliography

* Krawc, Alfred. ''International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (from the beginnings to 1984)''. Saur, 1986. * Wredlund, Bertil & Lindfors, Rolf. ''Långfilm i Sverige: 1930-1939''. Proprius, 1983.

External links

* 1933 films 1933 drama films Swedish drama films 1930s Swedish-language films Swedish black-and-white films Films directed by Oscar A. C. Lund 1930s Swedish films {{1930s-Sweden-film-stub