Åsa-Nisse (1949)

Plot Summary

At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at each household. The meeting assents and decides that the order of her rotation should be established by lot. The two bachelors of the village claim their right to the home help as well, arguing that they are also taxpayers. When Elsa Haglund arrives from Gothenburg she starts her first week of work at one of the two bachelors, the village shop-keeper Sjökvist. He is immediately infatuated by her and begins a flirtation. At the end of the week Elsa happens to meet the other bachelor, Eric Broo, called "the singing farmer". She falls in love with him, but doesn't know how to hook him, as he is very shy and unskilled in courting women. In the meantime Åsa-Nisse, the village rogue, carries out some of his pranks.

Full Cast & Characters

John Elfström

Åsa-Nisse

Greta Berthels

Eulalia

Bertil Boo

Eric Broo

Gösta Gustafson

Knohultarn

Gustaf Lövås

Sjökvist

Artur Rolén

Klabbarparn

Lillie Wästfeldt

Kristin

Emy Hagman

Josua Bengtson

Astrid Bodin

Helga Brofeldt

Einar Lidholm

Director & Crew

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