SPOILER WARNING. (Though not too much. Just enough!) This is an absolutely fantastic film that takes place on a train going from Stockholm to Berlin in Christmas time in the year 1945. It's a very unusual film, it's actually a THRILLER COMEDY! And the mix works very well. The film is hilarious and immensely entertaining! It stars some of Sweden's most amazing actors. Lena Nyman's playing an old lady with some dark secrets and Marie Göranzon plays the nun that can't stop swearing (!) after she gives up on her beliefs after a lot of hardships on the train journey. There is also a cheating couple trying to poison the man's wife that's also on the train. Gustaf Hammarsten (who is now known for playing Sasha Baron Cohen's assistant in the film "Brüno") plays the humble man who is trying to get to Berlin to "do some good" but can't seem to get in anything but trouble. Legendary actor Gösta Ekman does an absolutely amazing performance as an older gay man that caters to his lover who is totally unappreciative. This lover is gay just because he hates women! Here is a great clip, with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLc85TLhSl4 . And not to mention Robert Gustafsson who is incredibly funny in as an injured man that gets in more and more accidents and is soon all covered in bandages but doesn't seem to mind his injuries at all... lol...The film is written and directed by Peter Dalle, another famous Swedish actor, and after making this film I consider him to be a genius! I also love the extra material on the DVD where he explains some of his choices behind the film, it's really a masterpiece! A must watch! And the Swedish DVD edition has English subtitles so anyone can understand.

...and this movie easily exceeded my expectations. The fact that it is written and directed by Peter Dalle led me to believe it was in style with other films I'm used to (and bored with) seeing him in. Anyway, I grudgingly went along to see this flick and that I'm glad for. This stuff has humour and depth. 9 out of 10. See it!

`Skenbart' is one of the funniest movies to not only to come from Peter Dalle but from the Swedish cinema industry itself. It is a movie made in black and white to get something of the atmosphere from the days before Christmas in December 1945, which it does very well. Almost the whole plot takes place on a train, non-stop to Berlin. On the train is a mix of homosexuals, nuns, deported refugees, murderers, alcoholics and the failure literature critic 'Gunnar' played by the, in Sweden, famous actor Gustav Hammarsten. The leading role 'Gunnar' is the type of person that, although his intentions are for the best, seems to drag everyone near him, in a extremely funny way, into disaster and to a living hell, especially for a from the Finnish war, homecoming, wounded soldier played by the extremely funny comedian Robert Gustafsson. On the train is also a doctor, who cheats on his wife, with his mistress. They have together planned to murder the doctors wife that is also travelling with the same train without any knowledge about her husbands intentions. Will the wife of the doctor elude the plans to murder her and will everyone else survive the unlucky fellow 'Gunnar'?

Don't see this movie! It's... repulsive! The start is indeed very good, but in the middle everything falls and I really regret spending 80 crowns (about 11 dollars) on the ticket! Peter Dalle should consider this as his last chance to gain peoples interest. AWFUL picture! The only bright spot is the splendid work of Robert Gustavsson, Lena Nyman and Gösta Ekman.Hope you take my advise... The picture is rubbish.