My Friend Oscar

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My Friend Oscar
My Friend Oscar.jpg
Directed by
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Nikolai Toporkoff
Edited by Andrée Danis
Music by Sune Waldimir
Production
company
Terrafilm
Distributed by Nordisk Tonefilm
Release date
  • 20 January 1951 (1951-01-20)
Running time
85 minutes
CountrySweden
Language Swedish

My Friend Oscar (Swedish: Min vän Oscar) is a 1951 Swedish comedy film directed by Pierre Billon and Åke Ohberg and starring Åke Söderblom, Margareta Fahlén and Olof Winnerstrand. [1] A separate French-language version My Seal and Them was also produced.

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It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Courbevoie on the outskirts of Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.

Synopsis

While on a trip to Paris a young Swedish man wins Oscar, a seal, in a raffle who proceeds to cause chaos in his life.

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