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The Anderssons in Greece
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Swedish Sune i Grekland
Directed by Hannes Holm
Written byHannes Holm
Based on Sune in Greece
by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson
Produced by Patrick Ryborn
Starring William Ringström
Morgan Alling
Julius Jimenez Hugoson
Feline Andersson
Anja Lundqvist
Hanna Elffors Elfström
Erik Johansson
Julia Dufvenius
Kajsa Halldén
Production
companies
Distributed by Nordisk Film
Release date
  • 25 December 2012 (2012-12-25)(Sweden)
Running time
95 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

The Anderssons in Greece (Swedish : Sune i Grekland) is a Swedish children's comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 2012, [1] and originally planned for 2011 and thought to be set in Cyprus [2] and not Greece. The film is based on the book Sune i Grekland of the Sune book series [3] and was recorded in Rhodos Sunwing Resort Kallithea and in Stockholm.

Contents

The film was seen by more than 500,000. [4]

Premise

The Andersson's family go on a vacation to Greece, travelling there by aeroplane.

Actors

Production

Shooting began in late-May 2012 in Kallithea at Rhodos. [5] The Sweden scenes were shot in Västerås. [6]

Home video

The film was released to DVD and Blu-ray in 2013. [7]

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References

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  2. Marie Eremo (13 April 2011). "Sune åker till Cypern" (in Swedish). Örebroar'n. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  3. Sydsvenskan 11 mars 2010 - Ny film om Sune Archived 2011-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
  4. www.Sfi.se
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