Docking the Boat

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Docking the Boat

Difficult To Go Ashore
Directed by Tage Danielsson
Produced by Lars-Owe Carlberg
Written by Hans Alfredson
Tage Danielsson
Starring Monica Zetterlund
Lars Ekborg
Birgitta Andersson
Gösta Ekman
Katie Rolfsen
Hans Alfredson
Hatte Furuhagen
Tage Danielsson
Jim Hughes
Music by Lars Färnlöf
Charles Redland
Running time 87 min.
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
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Att angöra en brygga (English title: Docking the Boat, or sometimes: To Go Ashore) is a Swedish dark comedy film from 1965 directed by Tage Danielsson.

A group of friends are to celebrate the summer on a small island in the Stockholm Archipelago. The plan is to eat crayfish and drink snaps. Some are already in the house on the island and the rest of the group arrives by boat, but they experience great difficulties while trying to come ashore. An eccentric, Hollywood-obsessed, hot-tempered hermit living on the island doesn’t make the situation better.

The film stars Gösta Ekman, Monica Zetterlund, Hans Alfredson, Lars Ekborg and Birgitta Andersson have acquired a mild cult following in Sweden for their acting in this film. Monica Zetterlund also performed the theme song.

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