Top Cast
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Alf Kjellin
Prince Gustaf
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Mai Zetterling
Anna Maria Wastenius
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Lennart Bernadotte
Crown Prince Carl
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Erik 'Bullen' Berglund
Liljegren
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Hilda Borgström
Matilda
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Ragnar Arvedson
Henning Hamilton
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Carl-Axel Hallgren
Teacher
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Folke Rydberg
Glunten
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Gunnar Sjöberg
Carl Nyraeus
Overview
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
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