People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart

1967 Danish film

24 November 1967 (1967-11-24)

Running time

111 minutesCountriesDenmark
SwedenLanguageDanish

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.

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]

References

^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links

People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart at Den Danske Film Database (in Danish)
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart at Det Danske Filminstitut (in Danish)
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart at IMDb

Bodil Award for Best Danish Film

1940s

1948 Jenny and the Soldier
1949 The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman

1950s

1950 Susanne
1951 Café Paradis
1952 Det Sande Ansigt
1953 Adam and Eve
1954 Farlig Ungdom
1955 Ordet and Der kom en dag
1956 På tro og love
1957 Be Dear to Me
1958 Dregs [da]
1959 A Stranger Knocks [da]

1960s

1960 Vi er allesammen tossede
1961 The Last Winter
1962 Harry and the Butler
1963 Weekend [da]
1964 Street Without End [da]
1965 Gertrud
1966 Strike First Freddy
1967 Hunger
1968 People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart
1969 Ballad of Carl-Henning

1970s

1970 Jazz All Around
1971 Ang.: Lone
1972 The Missing Clerk
1973 The Escape [da]
1974 Not awarded
1975 Lars-Ole 5.c [da]
1976 That Brief Summer [da]
1977 Boys
1978 Me and Charly
1979 In My Life

1980s

1980 Johnny Larsen
1981 Jeppe på bjerget
1982 Rubber Tarzan [da]
1983 Der er et yndigt land
1984 Beauty and the Beast
1985 The Element of Crime
1986 The Dark Side of the Moon
1987 Coeurs flambés [da]
1988 Pelle the Conqueror
1989 Emma's Shadow [da]

1990s

1990 Waltzing Regitze
1991 Dance of the Polar Bears
1992 Europa
1993 Pain of Love
1994 Fish Out of Water
1995 The Kingdom
1996 The Beast Within [da]
1997 Breaking the Waves
1998 Let's Get Lost
1999 The Celebration

2000s

2000 The One and Only
2001 The Bench
2002 Kira's Reason: A Love Story
2003 Open Hearts
2004 Dogville
2005 King's Game
2006 Manslaughter
2007 A Soap
2008 The Art of Crying
2009 Terribly Happy

2010s

2010 Antichrist
2011 R
2012 Melancholia
2013 A Hijacking
2014 The Hunt
2015 Silent Heart
2016 Land of Mine
2017 In the Blood
2018 Winter Brothers
2019 Holiday

2020s

2020 Queen of Hearts
2021 Another Round
2022 Persona Non Grata

v t e Danish submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1956–1999	Qivitoq - Fjeldgængeren (1956) Be Dear to Me (1957) The Girls Are Willing (1958) Paw (1959) Harry and the Butler (1961) Sekstet (1964) Gertrud (1965) Hunger (1966) Once There Was a War (1967) People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart (1968) Ballad of Carl-Henning (1969) Ang.: Lone (1970) The Missing Clerk (1971) Oh, to Be on the Bandwagon! (1972) The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang (1974) Per (1975) The Olsen Gang Sees Red (1976) Boys (1977) Me and Charly (1978) Johnny Larsen (1979) Tree of Knowledge (1982) Zappa (1983) Tukuma (1984) Twist and Shout (1985) The Dark Side of the Moon (1986) Babette's Feast (1987) Pelle the Conqueror (1988) Waltzing Regitze (1989) Dance of the Polar Bears (1990) The Great Day on the Beach (1991) Sofie (1992) Black Harvest (1993) Carl, My Childhood Symphony (1994) Hamsun (1996) Barbara (1997) The Celebration (1998) Mifune (1999)
2000–present	A Place Nearby (2000) Italian for Beginners (2001) Open Hearts (2002) Reconstruction (2003) The Five Obstructions (2004) Adam's Apples] (2005) After the Wedding (2006) The Art of Crying (2007) Worlds Apart (2008) Terribly Happy (2009) In a Better World (2010) SuperClásico (2011) A Royal Affair (2012) The Hunt (2013) Sorrow and Joy (2014) A War (2015) Land of Mine (2016) You Disappear (2017) The Guilty (2018) Queen of Hearts (2019) Another Round (2020) Flee (2021) Holy Spider (2022) The Promised Land (2023)

Danish submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1956–1999