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Love Mates (1961)
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Love Mates (1961)
Original name: Änglar, finns dom...
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Style: romantic drama, period piece, romantic comedy, lighthearted, nostalgic
Audience: adult
Plot: banking, real estate, class differences, ambition, aspiration, social climbing, inheritance, entrepreneurship, rivalry, coming of age, love triangle, stock market, workplace, bittersweet, small town life, sports car, true love, summer, bank, archipelago
Place: stockholm sweden

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