Mysteriet på Greveholm was the 1996 Swedish Julkalender

Julkalendern

Julkalendern or Adventskalendern is an annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series broadcast by Sweden's national television broadcasting company Sveriges Television , since 1960 and has developed into a living part of contemporary Swedish yuletide tradition.Every series consists of 24...

. It was released on VHS

VHS

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 in October 1997 and on DVD

DVD

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 19 November 2001. It was voted as the best Julkalender ever in Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet

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 in 2007. A video game with the same name was released in 1997, and two sequels in 1998 (Mysteriet på Greveholm 2: Resan till Planutus) and 2000 (Mysteriet på Greveholm 3: Den gamla legenden).

Plot

The plot follows a family deciding to spend their Christmas on the country. They intend to rent a small house, but stumble across an old castle. Mistaking two thieves for the owners they "rent" the abandoned castle. Soon the children of the family, Ivar and Lillan, discover that the castle is haunted. At first the ghost seem to be evil, but soon the children (who are intrigued instead of terrified) befriend them. But there is something else in the castle, an evil even the ghosts are frightened of.

Cast

• Anna-Lena Brundin as Astrid Olsson
• Peter Fridh as Leif Olsson
• Hanna Malmberg as Melitta Olsson
• Gustaf Åkerblom as Ivar Olsson
• Linn Bülow as Lillan Olsson
• Sven Ahlström as Jean (ghost)
• Pierre Lindstedt as Staffan (ghost)
• Andreas Andersson as Måns (paper-boy)
• Gösta Engström as Rolf (thief)
• Claes Åström as Ralf (thief)
• Monica Stenbeck as Anna-Britta (grandmother)
• Svante Lodén as the taxi driver
• Carl-Åke Eriksson as the neighbour
• Beata Heuman as Anna (the girl next door)
• Isidor Torkar as the teacher
• Emy Storm as the lady teacher
• Rune Bergman as Greve von Dy
• Anagil de Melo Nascimento as the princess Dioda
• Keijo Salmela as Glada laxen (pixie)
• Arne Weise
  Arne Weise
  Arne Georg Fredrik Weise is a Swedish television personality, one of SVT's most famous broadcasters. He is most known for his role as a continuity announcer for SVT's Christmas Eve programming between 1972 and 2002, but has also presented such programmes as Vi unga , Ett med naturen and Minnenas...
  
   as himself

Production

The outdoor scenes was recorded on Hjularöd Castle

Hjularöd Castle

Hjularöd Castle is a castle in Eslöv Municipality, Scania, in southern Sweden.The castle was first mentioned in 1391, but the current castle was built in 1894-1897. It was built on command of the former owner, chamberlain Hans Gustaf Toll...

 in Eslöv Municipality

Eslöv Municipality

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, and the indoor scenes in SVT's studio in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. The music was written and performed by the Swedish band The Creeps.

Episodes

1. Hus att hyra (House to rent)
2. Ett märkligt slott (A strange castle)
3. Spökchock (Ghost shock)
4. Att tämja ett spöke (To tame a ghost)
5. En konstig familj (A strange family)
6. Fällan (The Trap)
7. Drängen och betjänten (The horse keeper and the servant)
8. Ögonmått och synvinkel (Tools)
9. Oväntat besök (Unexpected visits)
10. Greve von Dy:s menuett (Greve von Dy:s menuett)
11. Skattjakten (The treasure hunt)
12. Spöktimmen (The hour of the Ghost)
13. Lucia (Lucia)
14. Skatten (The Treasure)
15. Lekande lätt (Easy)
16. Melittas nya vänner (Melittas new friensa)
17. Det var en gång... (Once upon a time...)
18. Spejaren (The Tracker)
19. En riktig hjälte (A real hero)
20. Lillan får en idé (Lillan gets an idea)
21. Den sista striden (The Final Battle)
22. Dioda (Dioda)
23. Dan före dan (The day before Christmas)
24. Jul på Greveholm (Christmas at Greveholm)