Overview

1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus carrying schoolchildren is crushed and off New York m/s Stockholm collides with Andrea Doria. Frances Bulwark runs its last race and Swedish UN soldiers are flown to Suez. But most of all, it is the year of the Hungarian refugees.

Top Cast

Jonas Fohlin

Narrator (voice)

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Lars Orup

Self

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Frances Bulwark

Self (archive footage)

Sixten Jernberg

Self (archive footage)

Grace Kelly

Self (archive footage)

Prince Rainier III of Monaco

Self (archive footage)

Elvis Presley

Self (archive footage)

Fess Parker

Self (archive footage)

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Sonja Ruthström-Edström

Self (archive footage)