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SOS – En segelsällskapsresa

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SOS - En segelsällskapsresa
Directed byLasse Åberg
Written byBo Jonsson, Lasse Åberg
Produced byBo Jonsson
StarringLasse Åberg,
Jon Skolmen,
Johan Rabaeus
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri
Release date
  • 25 December 1988 (1988-12-25) (Sweden)
Running time
104 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

SOS – En segelsällskapsresa (S.O.S. - A Sailing Conduct Tour), released in some English speaking territories as Swedes at Sea, is a Swedish comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1988,[1] and directed by Lasse Åberg. It is the third film in the Sällskapsresan film series.

Synopsis

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The outgoing Norwegian art director in billboard advertising, Ole (Skolmen) takes his friend, the socially more cautious electric toaster quality inspector Stig-Helmer (Åberg) to a Stockholm midsummer costume party. The way home takes a wrong turn and the two friends are springboarded through an involuntary cruise on a garbage barge[a] via an upper class financier's summer party at Saltnäs in the Stockholm archipelago to the idyllic island, Stråholmen, threatened by unscrupulous investors and a bent municipal board member's secret and foul development plans.

On the journey, the film takes the viewer through a virtual catalog of the more or less expensive and/or self inflicted mishaps which leasure sailers may call upon themselves in the Stockholm archipelago during the summer.

Events culminate with a match race between two 12 Metre yatchts, the Kookaburra II and the New Sweden being disrupted somewhat by an unidentified undersea vessel[b]


Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "SOS - en segelsällskapsresa" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Database. 25 December 1988. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ à la the Mobro 4000
  2. ^ being a running gag and a Chekhov's gun throughout the film
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