Docking the Boat (Swedish: Att angöra en brygga, or sometimes: To Go Ashore) is a Swedish dark comedy film from 1965 directed by Tage Danielsson. The film stars Gösta Ekman, Monica Zetterlund, Hans Alfredson, Lars Ekborg and Birgitta Andersson. Monica Zetterlund also performed the theme song.

Docking the Boat
Swedish poster
Directed byTage Danielsson
Written byHans Alfredson
Tage Danielsson
Produced byLars-Owe Carlberg
StarringMonica Zetterlund
Lars Ekborg
Birgitta Andersson
Gösta Ekman
CinematographyMartin Bodin
Edited byCarl-Olov Skeppstedt
Music byLars Färnlöf
Charles Redland
Release date
  • 26 December 1965 (26 December 1965)
Running time
102 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
Monica Zetterlund taking a break during filming.

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A group of friends are to celebrate the summer on a small island in the Stockholm Archipelago. The plan is to eat crayfish and drink snaps, a quintessentially Swedish tradition.

Some are already in the house on the island (with the food) and the rest of the group arrives by boat (bringing the snaps), but they experience great difficulties while trying to come ashore. Their only neighbor on the island, an eccentric, Hollywood-obsessed, hot-tempered hermit doesn't make the situation better.

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