Release the Prisoners to Spring (original title: Släpp fångarne loss, det är vår!) is a 1975 Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 film comedy directed by Tage Danielsson

Tage Danielsson

Tage Danielsson was a Swedish author, actor, poet and film director. He was born in Linköping and died in Stockholm...

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The film stars Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård, was a Swedish cult actor.-Biography:...

 as the prisoner Harald Hansson, a break-in expert, who one day meets Frida and her friend and learns how to bake cookies. Perhaps a career change is worth to take in consideration? Especially when he falls in love with the daughter of a city judge, Flora...

The film is a cult comedy by Hasseåtage

Hasseåtage

Hasseåtage is the commonly used name for the popular Swedish comedy-duo featuring Hans "Hasse" Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. The term was created by the Swedish press in the 1960s, and was never used by the duo themselves...

. Memorable scenes in the film are the car chase with Järegård, the musical show number in the cell performed by Jan Malmsjö

Jan Malmsjö

Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö is a Swedish stage and actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.-Biography:...

 and the show number carried out simultaneously in the exercise yard by Järegård, Malmsjö and Urban Sahlin; and practically every scene with Ekman as the wacky prison governor.

The film was meant to comment on the criminal system and view of criminals in society (both in Sweden and worldwide).

Selected Cast

• Ernst-Hugo Järegård
  Ernst-Hugo Järegård
  Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård, was a Swedish cult actor.-Biography:...
  
   - Harald Hansson
• Lena Nyman
  Lena Nyman
  Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman was a Swedish film and stage actress.Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's 491 and got her breakthrough in his I Am Curious , where she, in pseudo-documentary fashion, played a character of the same name as herself, and its sequel I...
  
   - Frida
• Tage Danielsson
  Tage Danielsson
  Tage Danielsson was a Swedish author, actor, poet and film director. He was born in Linköping and died in Stockholm...
  
   - Her friend
• Gösta Ekman
  Gösta Ekman
  Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman is a Swedish actor.-Biography:One of Sweden's most appreciated, respected and popular actors; Gösta Ekman started his career in theatre but has also appeared in several Swedish films, including the Jönssonligan series...
  
   - The prison governor; Frans
• Margaretha Krook
  Margaretha Krook
  Margaretha Krook was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film Release the Prisoners to Spring.-Selected Filmography:...
  
   - Flora, the judge's daughter
• Jan Malmsjö
  Jan Malmsjö
  Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö is a Swedish stage and actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.-Biography:...
  
   - "The Professor"
• Georg Årlin
  Georg Årlin
  Georg Adolf Wilhelm Årlin was a Swedish film actor who appeared in 50 films between 1940 and 1988.A native of the southern city of Karlskrona, renowned as Sweden's only baroque city and site of the country's sole remaining naval base, Georg Årlin died in Lövestad at the age of 75.-Selected...
  
   - The judge
• Hans Alfredson
  Hans Alfredson
  Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson...
  
   - Erlandsson
• Urban Sahlin - "The Monkey"