Adventure

About Adventure

Adventure is a 1936 Swedish drama film directed by Per-Axel Branner and starring Karin Swanström, Tutta Rolf and Olof Winnerstrand. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Täby. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. It is based on 1913 play The Beautiful Adventure by Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers and Étienne Rey, adapted several times into films including the later 1942 French production The Beautiful Adventure.

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Adventure (Swedish: Äventyret) is a 1936 Swedish drama film directed by Per-Axel Branner and starring Karin Swanström, Tutta Rolf and Olof Winnerstrand. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Täby. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. It is based on 1913 play The Beautiful Adventure by Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers and Étienne Rey, adapted several times into films including the later 1942 French production The Beautiful Adventure.

Cast

Karin Swanström as von Bohren

Tutta Rolf as Heléne von Bohren

Olof Winnerstrand as Count Knut Lagercrona

Elsa Carlsson as Countess Lagercrona

Håkan Westergren as Karl Henrik Lagercrona

Sture Lagerwall as Sebastian Lavenius

Frida Winnerstrand as von Ackerman

Irma Christenson as Daisy

Elsa Ebbesen as Tilda

Hjördis Petterson as Four times married wife

Astrid Bodin as Lagercronas husa

Carl Browallius as Läkaren

Bellan Roos as Änkefru von Borens husa

Carl Ström as Lönnvall, generaldirektör

Märta Dorff as Karl Henriks sekreterare

George Fant as Ung man

Olav Riégo as Prästen

Jullan Jonsson as Fröken Berg

Ernst Fastbom as Bröllopsgäst

Knut Frankman as Tågkonduktör

Sven-Eric Gamble as Pojke

Anna-Stina Wåglund as Helenes sömmerska

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Notable quotes

“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.”
— Mircea Eliade, in Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
— Edwin Hubble, "The Exploration of Space", Harper's Magazine, Volume 158 (May 1929), p. 732
“Adventures never happen now-a-days; there are neither knights nor highwaymen; no lonely heaths, with gibbets, for finger-posts; no hope of even a dangerous rut, or a steep hill; romance and roads are alike macadamised; no young ladies are either run away with, or run over; —”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I Chapter 3
“The potential for adventure makes life worth living.”
— Vicki Garside, from MakeTimeToSeeTheWorld.com (2019)
“Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.—Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure—perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.”
— He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.—Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,—loses horse and mule, replied Malcon.

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