Vår tid är nu (English translation: Our Time Is Now; English title: The Restaurant) is a Swedish historical drama series with 32 episodes divided into four seasons. The first season premiered at SVT on 2 October 2017, and the second season premiered on 1 October 2018. The third season premiered on 28 October 2019, while the fourth season, bridging gaps that occurred in the storyline between Seasons 1 and 2, was released on 25 December 2020.
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Synopsis
When the Second World War ends in 1945, the middle-class Löwander family – mother Helga and siblings Gustaf, Peter and Nina – is running one of Stockholm's most popular restaurants, the fictive Djurgårdskällaren. Eldest son Gustaf has taken the establishment through the war years, partly by making it a favourite place for German embassy staff and German friendly Swedes. He wants to run the business as it always been run, while younger sister Nina wants to modernise it by turning the upper events room into a jazz club. She also falls in love with the new working-class kitchen boy Calle. Middle son Peter returns to the capital after having worked in a refugee camp in southern Sweden, helping refugees from the German death camps. He brings a female French Jewish camp survivor along and finds her a job in the restaurant. Peter soon realises that the family business is in big trouble. Although Gutaf formally runs the restaurant, mother Helga, through her old and probably once romantic friendship with head chef Stig "Stickan" Backe, still has an eagle eye on the business. And in the dining room maître d'hôtel "Bellan" Roos sees and hears everything.
The series revolves around Nina and Calle's turbulent relationship, the efforts to maintain and develop the restaurant and the personal struggles of both its management, staff and the multiple generations of the Löwander family, while covering the political and cultural changes in post-war Sweden until the 1970s.
Cast
Hedda Stiernstedt – Nina Löwander
Charlie Gustafsson – Calle Svensson
sv:Mattias Nordkvist – Gustaf Löwander
Adam Lundgren – Peter Löwander
Suzanne Reuter – Helga Löwander
Josefin Neldén – Margareta "Maggan" Nilsson
Peter Dalle – Stig "Stickan" Backe
Simone Coppo – Angelo
Julia Heveus – Christina Rehnskiöld
Hedda Rehnberg – Suzanne Goldstein
Hannes Meidal – Philippe Goldstein
Karin Franz Körlof – Lilly Lindström
Anna Bjelkerud – Ethel Jonsson
Göran Ragnerstam – Kurt Ragnarsson
Rasmus Troedsson – "Bellan" Roos
Malin Persson – Sonja Persson
Ida Engvoll – Ester Swärd
Timo Nieminen – Anders
Hannes Fohlin – Erik Rehnsköld
Philip Kuub Olsen – Arvid Löwander
Björn Granath – August Drugge "Generalen"
Marika Lindström – Blancheflor Drugge
