Rederiet (High Seas or The Shipping Company) was a (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between August 1992 and April 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors.
The 45-minute episodes were broadcast weekly on Thursday nights on the public-service channel SVT1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For ten years, Rederiet was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the rival TV4 show Tre Kronor. The competition for viewers can be compared to that between Dynasty and Dallas.
Rederiet also gained popularity in Finland on Yle TV2, and the show was a hit in Norway too on TV2. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The later seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which led most notably to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing in the series. Rapper Ken Ring also appeared as an extra in the show in 1996.
Rederiet became the first TV-series in Sweden to show a kiss between two homosexual characters, the kiss scene received attention in media.
On April Fools' Day 1993 SVT News announced that Mel Gibson was to play a lead role in the series. Gibson himself was interviewed and confirmed the information. It was later revealed that the whole event had been a joke.
Plot The story is about a shipping company which conducts cruiseferry traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland. It takes place on board MS Freja, the exterior of which was portrayed in the series by the Finnish registered MS Birka Princess. In the series the ship has different funnel colours from the ones in real life; in reality they were blue, yellow and red but in the series they were retouched to appear as different shades of blue. The show follows life on board the ship, mostly focusing on the crew and captain, but also on some of the passengers. The plot often involves love, breakups, accidents, deaths, murders, smuggling, theft, arson, rape, drugs, and insanity.
Another part of the story takes place on land, following the life of the Dahléns, the family who owns and runs the shipping company. There are also rival companies who try to gain control over the company, which leads to a constant struggle for power.
Characters Here is a list of the characters in Rederiet:
Actors Character Season Gösta Prüzelius Reidar Dahlén 1992 - 2000 Gaby Stenberg Elinor Dahlén/Beatrice Dahlén 1992/1994-2002 Mikael Samuelson Rolf Dahlén 1992 - 1993 Suzanne Reuter Renate Dahlén 1992 - 1994 Gunilla Paulsen Rebecca Dahlén 1992 - 1993, 1994, 2001 - 2002 Lena Strömdahl Yvonne Dahlén 1992 - 1996 Louise Belfrage/Sara Alström Lina Dahlén 1992 - 1993, 1996 - 1997 Emil Boss / Måns Nathanaelson Reidar Dahlén Jr "Junior" 1992 - 1995/1995 - 1997 Bengt Bauler Carl Ericson 1994 - 2000, 2002 Bert-Åke Varg Gustav Sjögren 1992 - 2002 Wallis Grahn Gerd Sjögren 1992 - 1993 Angelica Rubertson Sofie Sjögren 1992 - 1994, 1998 Kenneth Söderman Tony Sjögren 1992 - 2002 Margaretha Byström Katarina Remmer 1997 - 2002 Patrik Bergner Nikolaj Remlund 1998 - 2002 Lotta Karlge Anja Remmer 2000 - 2002 Johan H:son Kjellgren Viktor Remmer 1998 - 1999 Carina Lidbom Alexandra Remmer 1998 - 2001 Marie Robertson Nina Remmer 1998 - 2001 Mikaela Ramel Eva "Angelique" Wiik/Roberts/Remmer 1999 - 2000, 2002 Tommy Nilson Ivan Remmer 1997 Anders Ahlbom Yngve Almkvist 1992 - 1993 Anders Beckman Günther Kraft 1994 Anders Larsson Malte Eriksson 1994 - 2001 Anita Wall Elisabeth Lerwacht 1993 - 1994 Anna-Maria Samuelsson Käll Emelie Lindberg 1998 - 2000 Bojan Westin Barbro Pastorelli 1995 - 1996 Cecilia Ljung Peggy Svensson 1994 Claes Ljungmark Joel Hagberg 1994 - 1995, 1996 Duncan Green Peter Henson 2000-2002 Dan Ekborg Kaj Öhman 2002 Daniel Gustavsson Mattias Andersson 2001 - 2002 Daniel Sjöberg Thomas Nilsson 1992 - 1993 Erik Kiviniemi Jussi Tola 1993 - 1994, 2001 Erika Höghede Karin Bergström/Anna Lindell 2000 - 2002 Eva Bysing Irma Larsson/Nilsson 1992 - 1996 Sofia Helin Minna Lager 1996, 1998 Ewa Carlsson Margareta Lundqvist/Lager/Hammar 1996 - 2001 Pia Green Sara Torstensson 1993 - 1994 Göran Gillinger Robert "Raspen" Torstensson 1993 - 1994 Hans V. Engström Uno Kronkvist 1992 - 2002 Helena Grossi Lisa Axelsson 1992 - 1993 Ingar Sigvardsdotter Jessica Strömberg 2000 Ingela Olsson Gisela Kunze 1993 Helena af Sandeberg Louise Calling 1997-1998 Jessica Liedberg Stina Björklund 2002 Johannes Brost Torbjörn "Joker" Jonasson 1992 - 2002 Annmari Kastrup Anki Jonasson 1996-1998 Jonas Bergström Haakon Andersson 1993 Josephine Bornebusch Madeleine Boisse de Blaque 1999 Kaija Kärkinen Pirjo Koskinen 1992, 1994 Karin Bjurström Jeanette Wester 1996 - 1998 Karl Dyall Emilio Bolivar 1994 - 1995 Kim Anderzon Siv Svensson 1994 - 1996, 2002 Krister Henriksson Björn Lindman 1992 - 1993, 2002 Lars Lind Anders Moberg 1999 - 2000 Lennart R. Svensson Tom Hansson 1992 Linda Lundmark Eva-Lotta 2001 - 2002 Linus Wahlgren Filip "FN" Norberg 1996 - 1999 Lo Wahl Karin "KåKå" Karlsson 1993 - 1995 Lotta Ramel Diana Nordin 1995 Magnus Roosmann Fredrik Westberg 1999 Malin Berghagen Nilsson Paula Svensson 1994, 2002 Marie Chantal-Long Irina Gornitzka-Jonasson 1992, 1993 -1994 Martin Forsström Felix Svensson 1995 - 1997 Meg Westergren Desirée Lindman 1994 - 1995 Mikael Persbrandt Ola Simonsson 1992 - 1993, 1994 Minna Treutiger Tilda Lyksell 2001 My Bodell Elin Hagberg 1995 - 1996 Ola Forssmed Micki Sandell 1996 - 2002 Per Graffman Joe Gardner 2000 - 2001 Per Holmberg Henrik Bjurhed 1992 - 1996, 2002 Per Morberg Viggo Strieber 1994 - 1995 Per Myrberg Robert Boisse de Blaque 1999, 2000 Peter Harryson Pehr Silver 1994 - 1997, 2000, 2002 Peter Perski Magnus Glantz 2001 - 2002 Yvonne Schaloske Vera Bengtsson 1996, 1997 - 2002 Gerhard Hoberstorfer Tor "Totte" Bengtsson 1997 - 1998, 2002 Ray Jones IV Jesper Haglund 1999 - 2001 Regina Lund Mona Kjellgren 1994 - 1995, 2001 Rikard Bergqvist Stefan Holmberg 2000-2002 Sten Ljunggren Torkel Jonasson 1993-2001 Stina Rautelin Andrea Melin 1998 - 2000 Therese Akraka Bella Lindgren 1996 - 1997, 2000 Thomas Hellberg Georg Lager 1995 - 1998 Tom Deutgen Jan-Erik "Janke" Nilsson 1992, 1994 Yngve Gåsøy Erik Mattson 1996-1997 Yvonne Lombard Sonja Jonasson 1993-2001 Mats Långbacka Olof Hammar 2000 Gösta Krantz Hans Schneider 1996-1997 Åke Lindman Torsten Jansson 1998 - 1999
Impact on popular culture On 1 April 2018, the Swedish Star Trek fansite "Star Trek databas" announced, as an April Fool, that CBS had confirmed the series to be set in the same primary fictional universe as Star Trek, and that because of the major costs for a space opera series, the setting was instead changed to a seafaring ship on Earth.
See also List of Rederiet episodes
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