# In Lilac Time

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{{short description|1952 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = In Lilac Time
| image =File:In Lilac Time.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Ivar Johansson](/source/Ivar_Johansson_(director))
| producer = [Rune Waldekranz](/source/Rune_Waldekranz)
| based_on =  ''Johannes och Trubbnos'' by [Harald Beijer](/source/Harald_Beijer)
| writer =   [Ragnar Arvedson](/source/Ragnar_Arvedson)
| starring = [Kenne Fant](/source/Kenne_Fant) <br> [Nine-Christine Jönsson](/source/Nine-Christine_J%C3%B6nsson) <br> [Gudrun Brost](/source/Gudrun_Brost)
| music = [Håkan von Eichwald](/source/H%C3%A5kan_von_Eichwald)  
| cinematography = [Sven Nykvist](/source/Sven_Nykvist)  
| editing =  [Carl-Olov Skeppstedt](/source/Carl-Olov_Skeppstedt)
| studio = Sandrews
| distributor = Sandrew-Baumanfilm
| released = {{Film date|1952|02|04|df=yes}}
| runtime = 115 minutes
| country = Sweden
| language = [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language) 
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''In Lilac Time''''' (Swedish: '''''När syrenerna blomma''''') is a 1952 Swedish [historical](/source/historical_film) drama film directed by [Ivar Johansson](/source/Ivar_Johansson_(director)) and starring [Kenne Fant](/source/Kenne_Fant), [Nine-Christine Jönsson](/source/Nine-Christine_J%C3%B6nsson) and [Gudrun Brost](/source/Gudrun_Brost).<ref>Qvist & Von Bagh p.93</ref> It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm). The film's sets were designed by the [art director](/source/art_director) [P.A. Lundgren](/source/P.A._Lundgren).

==Synopsis==
In the late nineteenth century Johannes, a [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm) boy is left by his middle-class parents and brought up in the countryside where he struggles to settle in. The unrelenting hostility is only softened by the kind Charlotta. When he is twenty he returns to the capital city and enlists in the [Royal Guards](/source/Royal_Guards_(Sweden)) and meets up with Charlotta again.

==Cast==
* [Kenne Fant](/source/Kenne_Fant) as 	Johannes Weijner 
* [Nine-Christine Jönsson](/source/Nine-Christine_J%C3%B6nsson) as 	Charlotta aka Trubbnos
* [Gudrun Brost](/source/Gudrun_Brost) as 	Alexandra Weijner
* [Eva Stiberg](/source/Eva_Stiberg) as 	Frida
* [Maj-Lis Lüning](/source/Maj-Lis_L%C3%BCning) as 	Julia 
* [Åke Fridell](/source/%C3%85ke_Fridell) as 	Doctor
* [John Elfström](/source/John_Elfstr%C3%B6m) as 	Gustafson
* [Anna-Lisa Baude](/source/Anna-Lisa_Baude) as 	Emma
* [Ingrid Backlin](/source/Ingrid_Backlin) as 	Aina Wickman
* [Börje Mellvig](/source/B%C3%B6rje_Mellvig) as 	Wickman
* [Hjördis Petterson](/source/Hj%C3%B6rdis_Petterson) as Mrs. Lamberg, 'Bläsan' 
* [Willy Peters](/source/Willy_Peters) a John Weijner
* [Björn Berglund](/source/Bj%C3%B6rn_Berglund) as Rudolf
* [Lissi Alandh](/source/Lissi_Alandh) as Lena i Härsikeby
* [Sten Lindgren](/source/Sten_Lindgren) as 	August Åhlund
* [Hugo Björne](/source/Hugo_Bj%C3%B6rne) as 	King Oscar II
* [Olav Riégo](/source/Olav_Ri%C3%A9go) as General Sven Lagerberg
* [Arthur Fischer](/source/Arthur_Fischer_(actor)) as Cobbler Strid

== References ==
<references/>

== Bibliography ==
* Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0044979}}

{{Ivar Johansson}}

Category:1952 films
Category:1952 drama films
Category:1952 Swedish-language films
Category:Films directed by Ivar Johansson
Category:Swedish black-and-white films
Category:Films set in the 1880s
Category:Swedish historical drama films
Category:1950s historical drama films
Category:Films based on Swedish novels
Category:Films set in Stockholm
Category:1952 Swedish films
Category:Swedish-language historical drama films

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