Father of Four (film)

Far til Fire, (English Title: Father of Four), is a 1953 Danish family comedy directed by Alice O'Fredericks and starring Ib Schønberg and Birgitte Bruun. The film is based on the comic strip by Kaj Engholm and Olav Hast. It was the inaugural film in a series of eight Father of Four films made by ASA Films, one each year from 1953 to 1961.

Father of Four
Front cover of the Danish DVD
Directed by
Written by
  • Lis Byrdal
  • Kaj Engholm (cartoon)
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRudolf Frederiksen
Edited byWera Iwanouw
Music bySven Gyldmark
Distributed byASA Filmudlejning
Release date
2 November 1953
Running time
97 min.
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish

Cast

Production

In 1947, Hakon Steffensen, editor of the Politiken newspaper wanted to start running a comic strip that depicted typical Danish life. It was his response to the surge of American comic strips flooding the European marketplace in the post-war years. Steffensen asked cartoonist Kaj Engholm for ideas. Engholm then asked his friend, advertising executive Olav Hast, who proposed the idea. They roughed out the story together of a single father of four children with the oldest daughter running the household, agreeing the father would be a single parent without ever creating a backstory for the mother's absence. In interviews, whenever the authors were asked, "Where is the mother?", they replied, "I don't know but we promise to look into it."[1]

The comic strip first appeared in 1948 and ran daily for 40 years—on the back page of Politiken until 1955, then in the Berlingske Tidende newspaper until 1988. The text was written by Hast until retired from the strip in 1973, after which it was written by a variety of writers. Engholm drew the strip until his death in 1988.

Sequels

Father of Four was such an enormous success that a sequel Father of Four in the Snow (Far til fire i sneen) was quickly made and released in 1954. Thereafter, seven more sequels were made, one every year until 1961, all directed by Alice O'Fredericks. A ninth film was planned for release in 1962 but was never produced.

In 2005, the series was renewed with the release of Father of Four is Back (Far til fire - gi'r aldrig op) directed by Claus Bjerre and in 2006 with Father of Four: Living Large (Far til fire - i stor stil).

YearTitleOriginal titleNotes
1954Father of Four in the SnowFar til fire i sneendirected by Alice O'Fredericks
1955Father of Four in the CountryFar til fire på landet
1956Father of Four in the CityFar til fire i byen
1957Father of Four and Uncle SofusFar til fire og onkel Sofus
1958Father of Four and the Wolf CubsFar til fire og ulveungerne
1959Father of Four on BornholmFar til fire på Bornholm
1961Father of Four with Full MusicFar til fire med fuld musik
1971Father of Four in Good HumorFar til fire i højt humørdirected by Ib Mossin
2005Father of Four Never Gives UpFar til fire - gi'r aldrig opdirected by Claus Bjerre
2006Father of Four: Living LargeFar til fire - i stor stil
2008Father of Four: Home Field AdvantageFar til fire - på hjemmebane
2010Father of Four on JapaneseFar til fire - på japansk
2011Father of Four Back in the NatureFar til fire - tilbage til naturen
2012Father of Four to SeasFar til fire - til søs
2014Father of Four Uncle Sofus ReturnsFar til fire - Onkel Sofus vender tilbagedirected by Giacomo Campeotto
2015Father of Fours Wild VacationFar til fires vilde ferie
2017Father of Four On The TopFar til fire - på toppendirected by Martin Miehe-Renard
2018Father of Four In The SunFar til fire i solen
2020Father of Four and the VikingsFar til fire og vikingerne

References

  1. Engholm, Ole, Hvordan opstod Far til Fire? Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine, Far til Fire og Far til Fires far, www.olengo.dk, retrieved 2008
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