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Kalabaliken i Bender (1983)
Directed by Mats Arehn
Overview
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he’s an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don’t want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous “kalabalik” of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Gösta Ekman | Lasse Åberg | Brasse Brännström | Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray | Sten Ljunggren | Lars Amble | Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt | Sture Hovstadius | Nils Ahlroth | Donald Arthur | Walter Gotell | Rozita Auer | Ann-Sofie Kylin | Ayten Kuyululu | István Szilágyi | Axelle Axell | Johannes Brost | Charlie Elvegård | Astrid Filén | Gábor Erszó | Göthe Grefbo | Tuncel Kurtiz | Åke Lindman | Sven Melander | Károly F. Nagy | Kaj Nuora | Tamás Pintér | Imre Timar | Tage Winberg | Göte Wirström | Tom Younger