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Rederiet

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.[1] The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors.

Rederiet
MS Birka Princess portrayed the fictional MS Freja in Rederiet
GenreDrama
Created byLouise Boije af Gennäs
Peter Emanuel Falck
Directed byFilippa Wallström
Marcelo Racana
Christian Wikander
Thomas Hellberg
StarringGösta 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
Gösta Krantz
Theme music composerAnders Neglin
Country of originSweden
Original languageSwedish
No. of seasons20
No. of episodes318 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time45 min
Original release
NetworkSVT
Release20 August 1992 (1992-08-20) –
18 April 2002 (2002-04-18)

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.[2]

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

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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

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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
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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.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Pelle Jacobsson (17 April 2002). "318 x Joker" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  2. ^ Wallén-Widung, MInna (16 September 2017). "5 saker du kanske inte visste om Rederiet". Allas. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  3. ^ loghaD (1 April 2018). "CBS bekräftar" (in Swedish). Star Trek databas. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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