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When Darkness Falls (1960 film)

{{short description|1960 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = When Darkness Falls

| image = File:When Darkness Falls (1960 film).jpg

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| director = Arne Mattsson

| producer = Rune Waldekranz

| screenplay = Maria Lang

| based_on = Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård 1954 novel by Maria Lang

| starring = Nils Asther
Karl-Arne Holmsten
Birgitta Pettersson
Elsa Prawitz
Adolf Jahr
Mimi Nelson
George Fant

| music = Torbjörn Lundquist

| cinematography = Hilding Bladh

| editing = Lennart Wallén

| studio = Sandrews

| distributor = Sandrews

| released = {{Film date|1960|12|26|Sweden|df=y}}

| runtime = 113 minutes

| country = Sweden

| language = Swedish

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When Darkness Falls (Swedish: När mörkret faller) is a 1960 Swedish thriller film directed by Arne Mattsson. The film is based on Maria Langs 1954 novel Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård. The film stars Nils Asther, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Birgitta Pettersson, Elsa Prawitz, Adolf Jahr, Mimi Nelson and George Fant.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=4625&type=MOVIE&iv=Contributors|title=När mörkret faller (1960) - SFDB}} It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Barbro Lindström. It was followed by a sequel Lovely Is the Summer Night in 1961.

Plot summary

The young orphan girl Elisabeth from Stockholm is going to celebrate Christmas with relatives in Västlinge vicarage. When she arrives the day before Christmas the local shopkeeper is meant to pick her up at the station, but because of a misconception, Elisabeth is left to walk alone in the dark, in the deep snow all the way to the house. There she is warmly welcomed by the vicar Tord Ekstedt and his daughter Lotta, but the Christmas stillness ends abruptly when they on Christmas Eve finds out that the shopkeeper has been found brutally murdered in his shop.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=4625&type=MOVIE&iv=Story|title = När mörkret faller (1960) - SFDB}}

Cast

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|0054132|När mörkret faller}}
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Category:Swedish thriller films

Category:1960s thriller films

Category:1960s Swedish-language films

Category:1960 films

Category:Films based on Swedish novels

Category:Films directed by Arne Mattsson

Category:1960s Swedish films

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