# Banketten

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{{short description|1948 film}}
{{more citations needed|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Banketten
| image          = 
 
| caption        = 
| director       = [Hasse Ekman](/source/Hasse_Ekman)
| producer       = [Lorens Marmstedt](/source/Lorens_Marmstedt), [Terrafilm](/source/Terrafilm)
| writer         = Hasse Ekman
| starring       = [Ernst Eklund](/source/Ernst_Eklund_(actor))<br>[Elsa Carlsson](/source/Elsa_Carlsson)<br>[Sture Lagerwall](/source/Sture_Lagerwall)<br>[Eva Henning](/source/Eva_Henning)<br>[Hasse Ekman](/source/Hasse_Ekman)<br>[Sven Lindberg](/source/Sven_Lindberg)<br>[Birger Malmsten](/source/Birger_Malmsten)
| music          = [Charles Wildman](/source/Charles_Wildman)
| released       = {{Film date|1948}}
| runtime        = 106 min
| country        = Sweden
| language       = [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language)
}}

'''''Banketten''''' ({{langx|en|The Banquet}}) is a 1948 [Swedish](/source/Cinema_of_Sweden) [drama](/source/drama_film) film which is directed by [Hasse Ekman](/source/Hasse_Ekman).

==Plot summary==
Jacob Cotten is just about to turn 60 years old and his prominent family will hold a [banquet](/source/banquet) in his honour to celebrate the occasion. At this time his youngest son announce that he will not inherit his father's business and money, because he is a [communist](/source/communist) and want to make it on his own.

Cottens daughter lives in a distorted marriage full of violence, arguments, abuse, and alcohol. The eldest son lives like a spoiled parasite on his rich family and has no intent to change his ways. How will the banquet go and who will inherit the business and the fortune, that both created and destroyed the Cotten family?

==Cast==
*[Ernst Eklund](/source/Ernst_Eklund_(actor)) as Jacob Cotten, banker 
*[Elsa Carlsson](/source/Elsa_Carlsson) as Agnes, his wife
*[Sture Lagerwall](/source/Sture_Lagerwall) as Pierre Cotten, their son
*[Eva Henning](/source/Eva_Henning) as Victoria "Vica" Stenbrott, Jacobs and Agnes daughter 
*[Hasse Ekman](/source/Hasse_Ekman) as Hugo Stenbrott, Vicas husband
*[Sven Lindberg](/source/Sven_Lindberg) as Ivar, Jacobs and Agnes son, student
*[Birger Malmsten](/source/Birger_Malmsten) as Rex Lundgren, medicine student 
*[Hilda Borgström](/source/Hilda_Borgstr%C3%B6m) as aunt Alberta 
*[Jan Molander](/source/Jan_Molander) as Sixten, friend of Vica and Hugos 
*[Barbro Flodquist](/source/Barbro_Flodquist) as Kate, friend of Vica and Hugos 
*[Ragnar Arvedson](/source/Ragnar_Arvedson) as staff at NK
*[Solveig Lagström](/source/Solveig_Lagstr%C3%B6m) as Siri, maid at Vica and Hugos

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0040148}}

{{Hasse Ekman}}

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Category:1948 films
Category:Films directed by Hasse Ekman
Category:1948 Swedish-language films
Category:Swedish drama films
Category:1948 drama films
Category:Swedish black-and-white films
Category:1948 Swedish films
Category:Swedish-language drama films

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