Sunshine Follows Rain

Mai Zetterling cemented her star status in this Swedish box office hit as the daughter of a wealthy farmer who falls for a hard-up fiddler (Alf Kjellin), against her father’s will. Mai Zetterling re-teamed with her co-star from Ingmar Bergman’s Torment, Alf Kjellin, for this Swedish box office hit that helped cement her star status. Gustaf Edgren’s romantic melodrama sees Zetterling play the daughter of a wealthy farmer who falls for a hard-up fiddler after he comes to her rescue. Her father is against the match, not just because the fiddler is penniless, but for personal reasons, and tries to push her into marriage with another man. Lyrically scored and shot with an eye for period detail, Zetterling and Kjellin are perfectly cast as the couple who are determined true love will conquer all. Screening with short film, The War Game Mai Zetterling had previously cut her teeth on documentary short films for the BBC before she made her fictional short debut. In it, she scrutinises the conditioning of young boys regarding violence, as a children’s game becomes increasingly dangerous. It marked an auspicious start for her fiction directing, going on to be BAFTA nominated and named Best Short at Venice Film Festival. Screening as part of our Mai Zetterling Retrospective Swedish with English Subtitles Thanks to British Film InstituteSweden 1946PT1H42MN/C 15+2025-02-27

Mai Zetterling

Alf Kjellin

Sten Lindgren

Gustaf Edgren

Sunshine Follows Rain"Sunshine Follows Rain"

Showtimes

February 27, 1:15 pm