{{Other uses|Balloon (disambiguation)}} {{short description|1946 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Balloon | image = The Balloon.jpg | caption = | director = Göran Gentele <br> Nils Poppe | producer = Harald Molander | based_on = | writer = Nils Poppe <br> Gardar Sahlberg <br> John Wigforss | starring = Nils Poppe <br> Marianne Löfgren <br>Ingrid Borthen <br> Inga Landgré | music = Sune Waldimir | cinematography = Martin Bodin | editing = Oscar Rosander | studio = Svensk Filmindustri | distributor = Svensk Filmindustri | released = {{Film date|1946|10|07|df=y}} | runtime = 100 minutes | country = Sweden | language = Swedish | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Balloon''''' (Swedish: '''''Ballongen''''') is a 1946 Swedish comedy film directed by Göran Gentele and Nils Poppe and starring Poppe, Marianne Löfgren, Ingrid Borthen and Inga Landgré.<ref>Qvist & Von Bagh p.126</ref><ref>Klossner p.32</ref> The film's sets were designed by the art directors Nils Svenwall and Arne Åkermark. It was the second in a series of films feature Poppe in the role of Sten Stensson.
==Main cast== * Nils Poppe as Sten Stensson Stéen / Orvar Knatte / Yusuf / Kungen / Beppo * Marianne Löfgren as Gunlög * Marianne Gyllenhammar as Scheherazade * Ingrid Borthen as Drottningen * Inga Landgré as Rosita * Marianne Aminoff as Vanda Nowak * Ulla Norgren as Majken * Ellen Halvorsen as Dansös * Oscar Winge as Kosmos * Arne Lindblad as Torbjörn Tvärvigg * Sigge Fürst as Jerker Lemmalytt * Benkt-Åke Benktsson as Kalifen * Hilding Gavle as Storvisiren * Erik Hell as Älskaren * Stig Olin as Michael Kollinsky
== References == <references/>
== Bibliography == * Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland, 2002. * Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0038323}}
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