Pimpernel Svensson is a 1950 Swedish comedy film directed by Emil A. Lingheim and starring Edvard Persson, Ivar Wahlgren and Aurore Palmgren.Qvist & von Bagh p.124 It was made at the Stockholm studios of Europa Film and on location in Skåne. Arne Åkermark was its art director.
Synopsis In an updating of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a Swede travels to Stettin in 1945 to rescue his nephew who has been trapped in the Soviet-occupied port.
Cast Edvard Persson as Anders 'Pimpernel' Svensson Ivar Wahlgren as Ville Lundgren Aurore Palmgren as Willy's Mother Gunnel Wadner as Willy's Wife Arne Wirén as General Badajsky Rodja Persidsky as Major Pusjkin Algot Larsson as August Andersson Signe Wirff as Refugee Ove Flodin as Pålson John Degerberg as Bell-ringer Walter Sarmell as Station Master Frans Begger as Russian Soldier Svea Holst as Pimpernel's Maid Minna Larsson as Karla Andersson Inger Sotnikov as Girl in Stettin Mikael Sotnikov as Schultze Maj-Britt Thörn as Prostitute
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Bibliography Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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