Pig Hunt

Mar 11, 1970

1h 34m

★ 6.0

Overview

"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Sandrews

Svenska Filminstitutet

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Cast

Lennart Siljeberg

Hans Alfredson

Sivert Gård

Keve Hjelm

Margareta Siljeberg

Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz

Gustaf Rosén

Ingvar Kjellson

John Blenheim-Ahlskog

Tord Peterson

Maud Blenheim-Ahlskog

Margit Carlqvist

Thorne-Löwe

Bertil Anderberg

Haller & Ziegler representative

Carl Billquist

Smoltze

Börje Mellvig

Clerk

Per-Axel Arosenius

Margareta Sjödin

Dan Sjögren

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