Rederiet
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| Rederiet | |
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 M/S Birka Princess played the fictional M/S Freja in Rederiet |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Format | Soap opera |
| Created by | Louise Boije af Gennäs Peter Emanuel Falck |
| Directed by | Filippa Wallström Marcelo Racana Christian Wikander Thomas Hellberg |
| Starring | Gösta Prüzelius Johannes Brost Kenneth Söderman Hans V. Engström Bert-Åke Varg Gaby Stenberg Bengt Bauler Thomas Hellberg Peter Harryson Mikael Samuelson Suzanne Reuter Per Holmberg |
| Theme music composer | Anders Neglin |
| Country of origin | Sweden |
| Language(s) | Swedish |
| No. of seasons | 20 |
| No. of episodes | 318 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 min |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Sveriges Television |
| Original run | 1992 – 2002 |
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| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
Rederiet (High Seas or The Shipping Company) was a long-running (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between 1992 and 2002.
The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors, and the show has often been referred to as Sweden's version of Dynasty. The 45-minute episodes ran weekly on Thursday nights on the public service channel 1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For 10 years Rederiet was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the TV4 rival show Tre kronor. The rivalry for the viewers can be compared to that between Dynasty and Dallas.
Rederiet also gained popularity in Finland on YLE TV2, and the show was also a hit in Norway on NRK. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The later seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which most notably led to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing the series.
[edit] Plot
The story is about a shipping company which conducts cruiseferry traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm in Sweden and Turku in Finland. It takes place on board M/S Freja, portrayed in the series by the Finnish registered M/S Birka Princess, which later became the M/S Sea Diamond and sank in on on April 6, 2007. 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 capitalist family who owns and runs the shipping company. There are also rival capitalists who try to gain control over the company, which leads to a constant struggle for power.
[edit] Cast
Some of the main actors who starred in Rederiet were:
- Gösta Prüzelius as Reidar Dahlén (1992-2001)
- Johannes Brost as Torbjörn "Joker" Jonasson (1992-2002)
- Kenneth Söderman as Tony Sjögren (1992-2002)
- Hans V. Engström as Uno Kronkvist (1992-2002)
- Bert-Åke Varg as Gustav Sjögren (1992-2002)
- Gaby Stenberg as Elinor Dahlén and Beatrice Dahlén
- Bengt Bauler as Carl Ericson
- Thomas Hellberg as Georg Lager
- Peter Harryson as Pehr Silver (1994-1997)
- Mikael Samuelson as Rolf Dahlén (1992-1994)
- Suzanne Reuter as Renate Dahlén (1992-1994)
- Per Holmberg as Henrik Bjurhed
