Season 20 • Episode 12
LatestThis Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.
Production
Actual MS Prinsessan Birgitta. They really filmed on a ferry.
Costume
Shoulder pads that could deflect torpedoes.
Acting
Johannes Brost's Joker: television's greatest chaotic disaster man.
Creators
Peter Emanuel Falck, Louise Boije af Gennäs
Johannes Brost
Torbjörn "Joker" Jonasson
Gösta Krantz
Gaby Stenberg
Beatrice Dahlén
Kenneth Söderman
Tony Sjögren
Yvonne Schaloske
Vera Bengtsson
Margaretha Byström
Katarina Remmer
Mikael Samuelson
Rolf Dahlén
Bert-Åke Varg
Gustav Sjögren
Hans V Engström
Uno Kronkvist
Ola Forssmed
Micki Sandell
Patrik Bergner
Nikolaj Remlund
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual ferry MS Prinsessan Birgitta was later scrapped in 2019, outliving the show's cultural relevance by approximately two decades.
Co-creator Louise Boije af Gennäs came from Swedish nobility and basically wrote class anxiety as autobiography disguised as melodrama.
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