Svensson, Svensson
| Svensson, Svensson | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Directed by | Mikael Ekman and Björn Gunnarsson |
| Starring |
Allan Svensson Suzanne Reuter Gabriel Odenhammar |
| Theme music composer | Ragnar Grippe |
| Country of origin | Sweden |
| Original language(s) | Swedish |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 50 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | SVT Drama, Tre Vänner |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Kanal 1 (1994) SVT2 (1996) SVT1 (2007) |
| Picture format |
576i 4:3 (1994-1996) 720p 16:9 (2007-) |
| Original release | 7 October 1994 |
| External links | |
| Website | svt |
Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play.
Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007, and a fourth in 2008.
Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers.
The series centres on the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav (Allan Svensson) who works as mailman, the mother Lena (Suzanne Reuter) who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina (Chelsie Bell Dickson) and their son Max (Gabriel Odenhammar). For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina (now played by Claudia Galli) has married the conductor John (Felix Engström) who brought his daughter Greta (Embla Hjulström) into the family.
The Svensson surname is one of the most common names in Sweden. It is often used to represent something average, which is illustrated by the word medelsvensson, used about the "average Swede". Svensson corresponds to Smith in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Gustav's main interests are ball games and cartoons, especially The Smurfs and Scooby-Doo. He is a very conservative Social Democrat and he looks upon every change in his life with lots of suspicion. His biggest idol is Björn Borg, who signed the pair of underpants which hangs on the wall in Gustav and Lena's bedroom. His most precious possession is a Volvo 242, his only benefit after 20 years as a mailman. In 1987, he was elected The Mailman of the Year... or at least he joined the dinner party.
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