''Rötmånad'' (American title: ''Dog Days'', British title: ''What Are You Doing After the Orgy?'') is a Swedish

dark comedy Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally ...

film from 1970 directed by Jan Halldoff.

Plot

In the

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lives the barber Assar Gustafsson (played by Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) peacefully with his 17-year-old daughter Anna-Bella (played by Christina Lindberg). One day Assar's wife Sally (

Ulla Sjöblom Ulla Sjöblom (11 May 1927 – 3 August 1989) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1988. Selected filmography * '' House of Women'' (1953) * ''Karin Månsdotter'' (1954) * '' Simon the Sinner'' (1954) * '' ...

) comes back after five years of absence and she starts up a

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with the young girl as the main attraction.

Cast

* Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt ... Assar Gustafsson *

... Sally Gustafsson * Christina Lindberg ... Anna Bella Gustafsson * Ernst Günther... Jansson * Eddie Axberg ... Jan *Jan Blomberg ... Photographer

Reception

The film contains a lot of

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and violence, but also a lot of humor, and has achieved

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status in Sweden. In 2014, SF released it on DVD as part of Fyra klassiska filmer av Jan Halldoff box set.

External links

* 1970 films 1970s Swedish-language films 1970 black comedy films Films directed by Jan Halldoff Swedish black comedy films 1970s Swedish films Films set in Stockholm County Films about prostitution {{1970s-comedy-film-stub