On a Bench in a Park

Dec 19, 1960

1h 43m

★ 4.4

Overview

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

SF Studios

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Cast

Stig Brender

Hasse Ekman

Envall

Sigge Fürst

Sam Persson

Bengt Ekerot

Lena Vendel

Lena Granhagen

Axel Forselius

Ragnar Arvedson

Theater director

Torsten Lilliecrona

Strandmark

Olof Sandborg

Mrs Conelli

Fylgia Zadig

Oskar Göransson, Piss-Oskar

John Norrman

Gustaf Andreas Wallin

Gunnar Olsson

Street peddler

Eric Stolpe

Fris

Yngve Nordwall

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