Children's Island
6.4
“Based on the 1976 popular children’s Novel “Children’s Island” by P.C. Jersilds.”
Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.
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Cast
22 people
Tomas Fryk
Reine Larsson
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Anita Ekström
Harriet Larsson
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Ingvar Hirdwall
Stig Utler
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Beck
Börje Ahlstedt
Hester
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Fanny and Alexander
Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
Lars-Erik Berenett
Esbjörn
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Jordskott
Death of a Pilgrim
Sif Ruud
Mrs. Bergman-Ritz
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Wild Strawberries
The Magician
Hjördis Petterson
Olga
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It Rains on Our Love
A Ship to India
Malin Ek
Kristina
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False as Water
The Guardian Angel
Lena Granhagen
Helen
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The Return of the Dancing Master
Mannequin in Red
Majlis Granlund
Lotten
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Fanny and Alexander
Maria Dehnisch
Birgitta
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Kejsarn av Portugallien
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Maud Sjöqvist
Maria
No other roles listed
Kay Pollak Director · Ola Olsson Writer Carl-Johan Seth Writer
Director Writer
Kay Pollak
Writer
Ola Olsson
Writer
Carl-Johan Seth
Author
P.C. Jersild
Composer
Jean-Michel Jarre
Composer
Per Carleson
Composer
Thomas Macklin
Cinematographer
Roland Sterner
Editor
Thomas Holéwa
Production designer
Anna Asp
Costume designer
Brigitte Reiss-Andersen
Costume designer
Görel Engstrand
Worldwide gross $2.1M · First release December 25, 1980 · Produced in Sweden
Box office
Worldwide gross
$2,110,516
Production
Svenska Filminstitutet
Production
Treklövern
Production
Award Films International
Production
Sweden
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Barnens ö
Original language
Swedish
Spoken on screen
Swedish
Release dates
Sweden · December 25, 1980
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
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