Arne Mattsson

Arne Mattsson (2 December 1919 - 28 June 1995) was a Swedish film director, born in Uppsala.

His early movies were mostly comedies. His biggest success was "Hon dansade en sommar" (1951, aka. "One Summer of Happiness"), which earned him a nomination for the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952 and caused some controversy at the time because it containined nudity. In 1958 he directed "Mannekäng i rött", the first in a series of murder mysteries, considered by some to be a precursor of the Italian giallo films. His 1953 film of Peder Sjögren's second novel, "Bread of Love" ("Kärlekens bröd"), based on Sjögren's experiences as a volunteer in the Finnish Continuation War of 1941-44 angered the author, was banned in Finland and incurred the wrath of the Russians at the Cannes Film Festival. In spite of all this, Sjögren grudgingly admitted that as a study of men under severe pressure it was impressive [ [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?type=HTML&rgn=DIV1&byte=8118811&pview=hide Problem while searching in The Literature Collection ] ] .
The popularity of his mystery movies declined and in the 1970s and 1980s he made mostly low budget thrillers - some in collaboration with Mats Helge - which got mostly bad reviews.

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