1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus carrying schoolchildren is crushed and off New York m/s Stockholm collides with Andrea Doria. Frances Bulwark runs its last race and Swedish UN soldiers are flown to Suez. But most of all, it is the year of the Hungarian refugees.

Genres

Cast

Jonas Fohlin

Narrator (voice)

Lars Orup

Self

Sixten Jernberg

Self (archive footage)

Grace Kelly

Self (archive footage)

Prince Rainier III of Monaco

Self (archive footage)

Elvis Presley

Self (archive footage)

Fess Parker

Self (archive footage)