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'''Rederiet''' ('''High Seas''' or '''The Shipping Company''') was a long-running (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between 1992 and 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 ran weekly on Thursday nights on the public service channel 1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For 10 years ''Rederiet'' was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the TV4 rival show ''Tre kronor''. The rivalry for the viewers can be compared to that between ''Dynasty'' and ''Dallas''.
''Rederiet'' also gained popularity in Finland on YLE TV2, and the show was also a hit in Norway on NRK. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The latter seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which most notably led to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing the series.

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Cast

Plot

The story is about a shipping company which conducts cruiseferry traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm in Sweden and Turku in Finland. It takes place on board M/S ''Freja'', portrayed in the series by the Finnish registered M/S ''Birka Princess'', which later became the M/S ''Sea Diamond and sank in on on April 6, 2007. 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 capitalist family who owns and runs the shipping company. There are also rival capitalists who try to gain control over the company, which leads to a constant struggle for power.

Cast

Some of the main actors who starred in Rederiet were:

★ Johannes Brost as Thorbjörn "Joker" Jonasson (1992-2002)

★ Mikael Samuelson as Rolf Dahlén (1992-1994)

★ Suzanne Reuter as Renate Dahlén (1992-1994)

★ Kenneth Söderman as Tony Sjögren (1992-2002)

★ Hans V. Engström as Uno Kronstedt (1992-2002)

★ Regina Lund as Mona Källgren (1994-1995)

★ Bert-Åke Varg as Gustav Sjögren (1992-2002)

★ Gösta Prüzelius as Reidar Dahlén (1992-2001)

★ Cecilia Ljung as Peggy Svensson (1994-1995)

★ Kim Anderzon as Siw Svensson (1994-1996)

★ Mikael Persbrandt as Ola Simonsson (1992-1993)

★ Peter Harryson as Pehr Silver (1994-1997)

★ Björn Granath

★ Dan Ekborg

★ Ylva Lööf

★ Åke Lindman as captain Torsten Jansson (1999-2000)