Name: Oskulden från Mölle
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1977-01-06
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Britta Billsten, Bo Lindström, Gunilla Poppe

Takes place in the late 19th/early 20th century Mölle, but looks like Legoland...

This is a German farse written ny Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach. The original title is Der Keusche Lebemann. The play is about a gray and aged bachelor who suddenly becomes the dream prince of all women as it begins to circulate rumors that in his youth he had a relationship with a famous movie star.

But this doesn't age well. Although the play supposedly takes place in the late 19th/early 20th century tourist resort Mölle, the theater props looks like something they brought from Legoland.

And as is typichal of Poppe's plays at Fredriksdal, there is unfortunately never a real story payoff. The story just ends pretty abruptly.

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"Oskulden från Mölle" is a German farce by the radar couple Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach that Nils Poppe and Arne Wahlberg translated and adapted for Fredriksdal's outdoor theater in the summer of 1976.

Britta Billsten, Bo Lindström, Gunilla Poppe, and Nils Poppe in Oskulden från Mölle (1977)

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