Rederiet


Rederiet was a Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between August 1992 and April 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors, and the show has often been referred to as Sweden's version of Dynasty.
The 45-minute episodes were broadcast weekly on Thursday nights on the public-service channel SVT1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For ten years, Rederiet was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the rival TV4 show Tre Kronor. The competition for viewers can be compared to that between Dynasty and Dallas.
Rederiet also gained popularity in Finland on Yle TV2, and the show was a hit in Norway too on TV2. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The later seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which led most notably to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing in the series. Rapper Ken Ring also appeared as an extra in the show in 1996.
On April Fools' Day 1993 SVT News announced that Mel Gibson was to play a lead role in the series. Gibson himself was interviewed and confirmed the information. It was later revealed that the whole event had been a joke.

Plot

The story is about a shipping company which conducts cruiseferry traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland. It takes place on board MS Freja, the exterior of which was portrayed in the series by the Finnish registered MS Birka Princess. In the series the ship has different funnel colours from the ones in real life; in reality they were blue, yellow and red but in the series they were retouched to appear as different shades of blue. The show follows life on board the ship, mostly focusing on the crew and captain, but also on some of the passengers. The plot often involves love, breakups, accidents, deaths, murders, smuggling, theft, arson, rape, drugs, and insanity.
Another part of the story takes place on land, following the life of the Dahléns, the family who owns and runs the shipping company. There are also rival companies who try to gain control over the company, which leads to a constant struggle for power.

Characters

Here is a list of the characters in Rederiet:
ActorsCharacterSeason
Gösta PrüzeliusReidar Dahlén1992 -2000
Gaby StenbergElinor Dahlén/Beatrice Dahlén1992/1994-2002
Mikael SamuelsonRolf Dahlén1992 - 1993
Suzanne ReuterRenate Dahlén1992 - 1994
Gunilla PaulsenRebecca Dahlén1992 - 1993, 1994, 2001 - 2002
Lena StrömdahlYvonne Dahlén1992 - 1996
Louise Belfrage/Sara AlströmLina Dahlén1992 - 1993, 1996 - 1997
Emil Boss / Måns NathanaelsonReidar Dahlén Jr "Junior"1992 - 1995/1995 - 1997
Bengt BaulerCarl Ericson1994 - 2000, 2002
Bert-Åke VargGustav Sjögren1992 - 2002
Wallis GrahnGerd Sjögren1992 - 1993
Angelica RubertsonSofie Sjögren1992 - 1994, 1998
Kenneth SödermanTony Sjögren1992 - 2002
Margaretha ByströmKatarina Remmer1997 - 2002
Patrik BergnerNikolaj Remlund1998 - 2002
Lotta KarlgeAnja Remmer2000 - 2002
Viktor Remmer1998 - 1999
Carina LidbomAlexandra Remmer1998 - 2001
Marie RobertsonNina Remmer1998 - 2001
Mikaela RamelEva "Angelique" Wiik/Roberts/Remmer1999 - 2000, 2002
Tommy NilsonIvan Remmer1997
Anders AhlbomYngve Almkvist1992 - 1993
Anders BeckmanGünther Kraft1994
Anders LarssonMalte Eriksson1994 - 2001
Anita WallElisabeth Lerwacht1993 - 1994
Anna-Maria Samuelsson KällEmelie Lindberg1998 - 2000
Bojan WestinBarbro Pastorelli1995 - 1996
Cecilia LjungPeggy Svensson1994
Claes LjungmarkJoel Hagberg1994 - 1995, 1996
Duncan GreenPeter Henson2000-2002
Dan EkborgKaj Öhman2002
Daniel GustavssonMattias Andersson2001 - 2002
Daniel SjöbergThomas Nilsson1992 - 1993
Erik KiviniemiJussi Tola1993 - 1994, 2001
Erika HöghedeKarin Bergström/Anna Lindell2000 - 2002
Eva BysingIrma Larsson/Nilsson1992 - 1996
Sofia HelinMinna Lager1996, 1998
Ewa CarlssonMargareta Lundqvist/Lager/Hammar1996 - 2001
Pia GreenSara Torstensson1993 - 1994
Göran GillingerRobert "Raspen" Torstensson1993 - 1994
Hans V. EngströmUno Kronkvist1992 - 2002
Helena GrossiLisa Axelsson1992 - 1993
Ingar SigvardsdotterJessica Strömberg2000
Ingela OlssonGisela Kunze1993
Helena af SandebergLouise Calling1997-1998
Jessica LiedbergStina Björklund2002
Johannes BrostTorbjörn "Joker" Jonasson1992 - 2002
Annmari KastrupAnki Jonasson1996-1998
Jonas BergströmHaakon Andersson1993
Josephine BornebuschMadeleine Boisse de Blaque1999
Kaija KärkinenPirjo Koskinen1992, 1994
Karin BjurströmJeanette Wester1996 - 1998
Karl DyallEmilio Bolivar1994 - 1995
Kim AnderzonSiv Svensson1994 - 1996, 2002
Krister HenrikssonBjörn Lindman1992 - 1993, 2002
Lars LindAnders Moberg1999 - 2000
Lennart R. SvenssonTom Hansson1992
Linda LundmarkEva-Lotta2001 - 2002
Linus WahlgrenFilip "FN" Norberg1996 - 1999
Lo WahlKarin "KåKå" Karlsson1993 - 1995
Lotta RamelDiana Nordin1995
Magnus RoosmannFredrik Westberg1999
Malin Berghagen NilssonPaula Svensson1994, 2002
Marie Chantal-LongIrina Gornitzka-Jonasson1992, 1993 -1994
Martin ForsströmFelix Svensson1995 - 1997
Meg WestergrenDesirée Lindman1994 - 1995
Mikael PersbrandtOla Simonsson1992 - 1993, 1994
Minna TreutigerTilda Lyksell2001
My BodellElin Hagberg1995 - 1996
Ola ForssmedMicki Sandell1996 - 2002
Per GraffmanJoe Gardner2000 - 2001
Per HolmbergHenrik Bjurhed1992 - 1996, 2002
Per MorbergViggo Strieber1994 - 1995
Per MyrbergRobert Boisse de Blaque1999, 2000
Peter HarrysonPehr Silver1994 - 1997, 2000, 2002
Peter PerskiMagnus Glantz2001 - 2002
Yvonne SchaloskeVera Bengtsson1996, 1997 - 2002
Gerhard HoberstorferTor "Totte" Bengtsson1997 - 1998, 2002
Ray Jones IVJesper Haglund1999 - 2001
Regina LundMona Kjellgren1994 - 1995, 2001
Rikard BergqvistStefan Holmberg2000-2002
Sten LjunggrenTorkel Jonasson1993-2001
Stina RautelinAndrea Melin1998 - 2000
Therese AkrakaBella Lindgren1996 - 1997, 2000
Thomas HellbergGeorg Lager1995 - 1998
Tom DeutgenJan-Erik "Janke" Nilsson1992, 1994
Yngve GåsøyErik Mattson1996-1997
Yvonne LombardSonja Jonasson1993-2001
Mats LångbackaOlof Hammar2000
Gösta KrantzHans Schneider1996-1997
Åke LindmanTorsten Jansson1998 - 1999

Impact on popular culture

On 1 April 2018, Star Trek databas announced, as an April Fool, that CBS had confirmed the series to be sit in the same primary fictional universe as Star Trek, and that because of the major costs for a space opera series, the setting was instead changed to a seafaring ship on Earth.