Rederiet

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Rederiet
The fictional M/S Freja in Rederiet
Genre	Soap Opera
Creator(s)	Louise Boije af Gennäs Peter Emanuel Falck
Starring	Johannes Brost Mikael Samuelson Suzanne Reuter Kenneth Söderman Hans V. Engström Regina Lund Bert-Åke Varg Gösta Prüzelius Cecilia Ljung Kim Anderzon Mikael Persbrandt Peter Harryson Björn Granath Dan Ekborg Ylva Lööf Åke Lindman
Theme music composer	Anders Neglin
Country of origin	Sweden
No. of episodes	318
Production
Running time	45 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Sveriges Television
Original run	1992 – 2002
Links
Official website
IMDb profile

Rederiet (High Seas or The Shipping Company) was a long-running (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera on Swedish TV (1992 – 2002).

The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors in Sweden, has often been referred to as Sweden's version of Dynasty. The 45-minute show 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, and the show was also a hit in Norway on NRK. The show was also sold to Egypt.

[edit] Plot

The story is about a shipping company which conducts cruise and passenger traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm in Sweden and Turku in Finland. It takes place on board the ship M/S Freja, portrayed in the series by the Finnish registered M/S Birka Princess. 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.