Cultpix Radio Ep.48 - Ukraine Cult and Nordisk ToneFilm

No summer pause yet for Django Nudo and the Smut Peddler, who celebrate 5,000 podcast and 1,000 Instagram followers (almost no fakes). Coming up after the summer pause there will be special episodes about the Danish Bedside sex comedies and vintage British smut from Screenbound - with guests!Cultpix kicked off the partnership with Ukraine's Dovzhenko Centre that will see us release old and more recent cult films from the country in the news, partly as a Fuck You to Putin for trying to wipe out Ukrainian culture. Slava Ukraini! Return to Treasure Island (1988) - Zany and wacky award-winning animated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic about the hunt for a buried treasure, with English dub dialogue. Nordisk ToneFilm was an unusual film producer and distributor that made 58 feature film. It started out supporting community cinemas in Sweden, but branched out quickly to a broad offering of comedies, drama, children's films and more. "One Summer of Happiness" (1958), the first Swedish global nudie export success was one of theirs, as too was the "Lille Fridolf" comedy series. [NB: The below films all lack English subtitles as-of-yet. We promise that we are working on it.]Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket /The Inventor’s Dilemma (1949) - A sort of Swedish Film Noir about an inventor lives in Stockholm's old town in a building for all derelict, drunkards, hobos, prostitutes... and a midget. A melodrama but with beautiful vistas of a lost Stockholm. Bröllopsdagen/The Wedding Day (1960) - Star-studded urban comedy about runaway bride/runaway groom. Director Kenne Fant would go onto greater things. Flygplan saknas/An Aeroplane is Missing (1965) - Possibly made just to show how a sea rescue at sea would be executed and how it looks with as much realism as possible. Two pilots who can't stand each other but have to fly together and crash. Top Gun without the aerial dogfights. Kvinnan gör mig galen/Woman Drives Me Crazy (1948) - Mistaken identity comedy with wealthy aunt plot device, called a "light, elegant, half-crazy Swedish comedy". Music by Boogie-woogie piano player Charlie Norman. Det var en gång/Once Upon a Time (1945) - Anthology children's film that partly feels like a folk horror when watched today. The Christmas film with the Wise owl, Pappa Bear and Little Troll feels very folklory weird.  Goda vänner trogna grannar/Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours (1960) - Father and husband who makes life misery for those around him get his comeuppance; a theme also found in  "Morianna" (1965) and "Jokerfejs" (1983).Vildmarkssommar/Matty (1957) - Strange hybrid of drama and nature documentary in the style of old Disney Nature film, that fits in most of the fauna of northern Sweden. We will be back in late August/early September with more cult films, guests and the returns of Kitty Lash.

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