The Great Adventure (1953 film)

The Great Adventure
Swedish DVD cover
Directed by	Arne Sucksdorff
Written by	Arne Sucksdorff
Produced by	Arne Sucksdorff
Starring	Gunnar Sjöberg
Cinematography	Arne Sucksdorff
Edited by	Arne Sucksdorff
Release date	29 September 1953 (1953-09-29)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

The Great Adventure (Swedish: Det stora äventyret) is a 1953 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff.

Cast

Gunnar Sjöberg as Narrator (Anders as an adult) (voice)
Luis Van Rooten as Narrator (Anders as an adult) (U.S. version) (voice)
Anders Nohrborg as Anders
Kjell Sucksdorff as Kjell
Holger Stockman as KvastasEmil
Arne Sucksdorff as Father
Amanda Haglund as Grandmother
Annika Ekedahl as Annika
Aina Fritzell as Teacher
Stina Andersson as Mother
Erik Bodin as Store Keeper
Sigvard Kihlgren as Jens
Norman Shelley as Narrator

Awards

Won

4th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)^[1]

Nominated

1954 Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or^[2]

References

^ "4th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
^ "Festival de Cannes: The Great Adventure". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 30 January 2009.

External links

The Great Adventure at IMDb
The Great Adventure at the Swedish Film Institute Database

v t e Films directed by Arne Sucksdorff
Symphony of a City The Great Adventure The Flute and the Arrow The Boy in the Tree My Home Is Copacabana Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

v t e BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
1948–1989	Louisiana Story (1948) Daybreak in Udi (1949) The Undefeated (1950) Beaver Valley (1951) Royal Journey (1952) The Conquest of Everest (1953) The Great Adventure (Det Stora äventyret) (1954) The Vanishing Prairie (1955) On the Bowery (1956) Journey into Spring (1957) Glass (Glas) (1958) The Savage Eye (1959) Dispute (1960) Volcano (Le Rendezvous du diable) (1961) Four Line Conics (1962) Individual Honour (1963) Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) Tokyo Olympiad (1965) Goal! The World Cup (1966) To Die in Madrid (1967) In Need of Special Care (1968) Prologue (1969) Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970) The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) Cutting Oils and Fluids (1972) Grierson (1973) Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974) The Early Americans (1975) The Canadians (Los Canadienses) (1976) No Award (1977) The Silent Witness (1978) The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1979) No Award (1980) Soldier Girls (1981) Burden of Dreams (1982) Schindler (1983) 28 Up (1984) Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1985) Shoah (1986) Baka – People of the Rainforest (1987) Death on the Rock (1988) Four Hours in My Lai (1989)
2005	The Orphans of Nkandla (2005)
2011–present	Senna (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) The Act of Killing (2013) Citizenfour (2014) Amy (2015) 13th (2016) I Am Not Your Negro (2017) Free Solo (2018) For Sama (2019) My Octopus Teacher (2020) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Navalny (2022) 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
Between 1990–2012, the documentaries continued to be honoured at the British Academy Television Awards.

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