Overview
In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Director and cast
- Sigurd Wallén Director
- Adolf Jahr as Carlsson
- Dagmar Ebbesen as Madam Flod
- Peter Höglund as Gusten
- Sigurd Wallén as Rundqvist
- Emil Fjellström as Reverend Nordström
- Nils Hallberg as Norman
- Alice Skoglund as Clara
- Ann-Margret Bergendahl as Lotten
- Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad as Mrs Nordström
- Hugo Björne as Professor
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