One Summer of Happiness

Klubb Super 8 is preparing a Bu-ray release of Arne Mattsson's One Summer of Happiness (1951), starring Edvin Adolphson, Folke Sundquist, John Elfström, and Ulla Jacobsson. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 27.

Description: A big city student arrives at a farm and falls in love with the farmer's 17-year-old daughter. They have to deal with disapproving parents, as well as the local priest, who thinks the youth of today is rotten.

This 1951 film unknowingly helped establish the reputation of Sweden as the land of sin, just because of a short, innocent skinny dip, fanning the image of Sweden as a sexually permissive country, and eventually spawning a wave of "Swedish Sin" films exported all over the world. The film remains to this day one of Sweden's biggest international box office successes of all time. It was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and won the award for Best Music at the Cannes Film Festival.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATION BY THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE
• "Arne Mattsson – A Career" – video essay by Rickard Gramfors (Klubb Super 8) and Jan Lumholdt (film critic and film historian)
• Audio Commentary with Anna-Maria and Roger Blomgren (authors of the new biography Arne Mattsson - Film till varje pris)
• "She Danced One Summer - and the World Never Recovered" - 20 page booklet
• Poster Gallery
• In Swedish, with English subtitles