SOS – En segelsällskapsresa (S.O.S. - A Sailing Conduct Tour), released in some English speaking territories as Swedes at Sea, is a Swedish comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 December 1988, and directed by Lasse Åberg. It is the third film in the Sällskapsresan film series.
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Synopsis
The outgoing Norwegian art director in billboard advertising, Ole (Skolmen) takes his friend, the socially more cautious electric toaster quality inspector Stig-Helmer (Åberg) to a Stockholm midsummer costume party. The way home takes a wrong turn and the two friends are springboarded through an involuntary cruise on a garbage barge via an upper class financier's summer party at Saltnäs in the Stockholm archipelago to the idyllic island, Stråholmen, threatened by unscrupulous investors and a bent municipal board member's secret and foul development plans.
On the journey, the film takes the viewer through a virtual catalog of the more or less expensive and/or self inflicted mishaps which leisure sailors may call upon themselves in the Stockholm archipelago during the summer.
Events culminate with a match race between two 12 Metre yachts, the Kookaburra II and the New Sweden being disrupted somewhat by an unidentified undersea vessel
Cast
Lasse Åberg as Stig-Helmer Olsson
Jon Skolmen as Ole Bramserud
Birgitte Söndergaard as Anna-Vera
Tor Isedal as Stråholmaren
Ewa Fröling as Madeleine "Madde" Abrahamsen - Henkan's wife
Johan Rabaeus as Henrik "Henkan" Abrahamsen - investor
Per Eggers as Kaj "Kajan" Björkhagen - investor
Sten Ljunggren as Didrik - investor
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs as Stig-Helmer's mother
Reception
The film was the most popular film of 1989 in Sweden with 1.3 million admissions.