People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart

People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart, (Danish: Mennesker mødes og sød musik opstår i hjertet), is a 1967 Danish/Swedish romantic comedy directed by Henning Carlsen and starring Harriet Andersson and Preben Neergaard. The film is based upon the 1944 novel by Jens August Schade.

People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart
Front cover of the Danish DVD
Directed by	Henning Carlsen
Written by	Poul Borum Henning Carlsen
Based on	1944 novel by Jens August Schade
Produced by	Göran Lindgren Henning Carlsen
Starring	Harriet Andersson Preben Neergaard
Cinematography	Henning Kristiansen
Edited by	Henning Carlsen
Music by	Krzysztof Komeda
Distributed by	Nordisk Film
Release date	24 November 1967 (1967-11-24)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	Denmark Sweden
Language	Danish

Cast

Actor	Role
Harriet Andersson	Sofia Persson
Preben Neergaard	Sjalof Hansen
Eva Dahlbeck	Devah Sørensen
Erik Wedersøe	Hans Madsen
Lone Rode	Evangeline Hansen
Lotte Horne	Mithra
Elin Reimer	Calcura
Bent Christensen	Ramon Salvador
Lotte Tarp	Kose
Knud Rex	Ramon Salvador
Georg Rydeberg	Robert Clair de Lune
Cassandra Mahon	Josefa Swell
Zito Kerras	Young Men in New York
Ove Rud	Clergyman
Benny Juhlin	Fresh Young Man

Awards

People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film in 1968, and for her leading role, the Swedish actress Andersson also received that year's Bodil Award for Best Actress. The film was also selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[1]

See also

• Film portal
• Denmark portal

• List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film