Ted: För kärlekens skull

Ted: För kärlekens skull (English lit. '"Ted: For Love's Sake"'), also known as Ted: Show Me Love,[2] is a 2018 Swedish film directed and written by Hannes Holm and produced by Lena Rehnberg. Starring Adam Pålsson and Peter Viitanen as Ted and Kenneth Gärdestad, respectively, the film is loosely based on the life of Ted Gärdestad, who was one of Sweden's best-known pop artists in the 1970s, and that of his brother Kenneth, who wrote the lyrics for Ted's songs but did not share his fame.[3]

Ted: För kärlekens skull
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHannes Holm
Produced byLena Rehnberg
Written byHannes Holm
Screenplay byHannes Holm
Starring
Music byJimmy Lagnefors[1] (incidental music)
Ted Gärdestad (songs)
Production
company
Stella Nova Film
Release date
  • 3 January 2018 (2018-01-03) (Sweden)
Running time
120 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
Budget$5 million

The film was released on 3 January 2018 in Sweden by Stella Nova Film. It includes a number of Ted and Kenneth Gärdestad's songs, performed by Adam Pålsson.

Plot

In 1971, 15-year-old Ted Gärdestad is playing Björn Borg in the finals of the Swedish tennis championships. He notices Borg's girlfriend Helena Anliot in the audience, and his concentration is disrupted by a sudden inspiration for a song about her. He loses the game, to his father Arne's displeasure. Ted is further inspired by meeting a girl in his school library, who is studying a book about the universe; this leads to Ted and his brother Kenneth writing and recording the songs "Universum" and "Snurra du min värld" and bringing them to the record company Sweden Music in Stockholm. Here they meet Benny Andersson and Stikkan Anderson; Ted pretends that he has left the taped recording at home and starts to play "Jag vill ha en egen måne", catching the interest of the two Anderssons and leading to a contract. Arne has meanwhile tried to get Ted tennis lessons with Björn Borg's coach, and is upset when Ted misses his first coaching session.

During the recording of Ted's debut album "Undringar", with singers Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog and session guitarist Janne Schaffer, Stikkan Andersson tells Kenneth that he cannot keep writing the lyrics for Ted's songs. Ted however refuses to work with any other lyricist, and states that Kenneth is the only person who can express how Ted is feeling. Andersson is more successful in his attempts to persuade Ted to give up his tennis career, saying that he cannot be a singer and a tennis player at the same time. Ted's mother Margit is very supportive of her son's music career, and his father Arne eventually accepts his choice of music over tennis. A period follows when Ted is alternately touring folkparks around Sweden and recording new music.

In 1972, the 16-year-old has a performance at Liseberg where he is mobbed by the enthusiastic audience, finally having to escape through a window with the help of two police officers. Following this ordeal, Ted starts to experience symptoms of schizophrenia, in the form of hallucinations of a threatening figure who tells him not to trust anybody.

Ted becomes one of Sweden's best-known pop singers. He is involved with a number of girls, but after meeting Lotta Ramel at a party and discussing music with her father Povel he starts a longer-term relationship with her, and they eventually get married. He is scheduled for an international tour with ABBA, but chooses to stay with Lotta. She, however, meets another man, a fellow student at the School of the Arts in Malmö, and ends their relationship.

In 1979, Ted composes "Satellit" and wins the 1979 Melodifestivalen contest, which makes him the Swedish representative at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. As he is preparing to go on stage, he suffers a breakdown and starts hearing voices, but after taking a strong dose of Valium he gets on the stage, albeit with a lacklustre performance that yields very few points. At his hotel room after the contest, he suffers new hallucinations.

In the following years, Ted searches for calm and a sense of identity, and he is introduced to the Rajneesh movement. He starts to distance himself from his family in various ways, choosing to perform lyrics written by Finn Kalvik over those created by Kenneth, which causes Kenneth to punch Kalvik in the face in frustration. Ted also begins a new relationship, with actress Ann Zacharias, and has a daughter with her. At the same time he gradually becomes more and more involved with the Rajneesh movement and gives large sums of money to them. Not long before his second child with Zacharias is due, Ted leaves her and moves to Rajneeshpuram in Oregon.

Ted returns from Oregon in 1986. His parents, together with Kenneth and his family, welcome him back but are embarrassed by his obsessive cleanliness and germophobia. In the basement of their parents' home, Kenneth tries to talk to Ted about music and family, saying that Ann Zacharias would welcome getting in touch and that Ted might try to play just for the fun of it, but he is attacked by an enraged Ted who accuses Kenneth of siding with the demons tormenting him.

Ted continues to struggle with his mental health problems, making Kenneth increasingly worried. After an episode where Ted destroys a framed publicity photo and his guitar, Kenneth manages to comfort him and Ted suddenly realises that the threatening man in his hallucinations does not actually exist. He tells Kenneth that he wants him to write lyrics for him again, repeating his statement from the beginning of the film that Kenneth is the only lyricist who can express Ted's feelings. Kenneth writes the lyrics for "Himlen är oskyldigt blå", and at an outdoor concert in Stockholm, Ted publicly acknowledges Kenneth's support, and performs the song in front of an audience where Ann Zacharias and his two children can be seen, together with Ted's parents and other people who have been important to him.

The final scene of the film takes place at Midsummer 1997, and hints at Ted Gärdestad's suicide, showing him hallucinating about the girl from the school library and walking towards a light background while his family, unknowing, celebrates Midsummer together.

Cast

Production

Principal photography began in February 2017[4] at various locations; Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Trollhättan.[5] Additional filming was done on Tanumshede, a Swedish town that depicts Oregon, United States, in the film.[5] The budget was reportedly to be 43 million Swedish kronor (5 million USD).[5]

Soundtrack
Ted - För kärlekens skull (Musiken från filmen)
Soundtrack album by
Adam Pålsson
Released5 January 2018
GenreSoft rock, vispop
Length49:12
LabelUniversal
ProducerMartin Höper

On 5 January 2018, the music for the film was released on an album, "Ted - För kärlekens skull (Musiken från filmen)", with Ted Gärdestad's songs being covered by Adam Pålsson.[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ted Gärdestad and Kenneth Gärdestad.

No.TitlePerformerLength
1."Jag vill ha en egen måne"Adam Pålsson3:07
2."Sol, vind och vatten"Pålsson3:08
3."Snurra du min värld"Pålsson3:06
4."Universum"Pålsson3:56
5."Come Give Me Love" ([nb 2])Pålsson3:28
6."Himlen är oskyldigt blå"Pålsson4:51
7."Oh, vilken härlig da'"Pålsson3:30
8."Jag ska fånga en ängel"Pålsson3:44
9."Satellit"Pålsson2:58
10."Helena"Pålsson3:21
11."Helt nära dej"Pålsson3:16
12."Angela"Pålsson2:49
13."För kärlekens skull"Pålsson5:20
14."Sommarlängtan"Pålsson2:38

Notes
  1. Both the names "Bhagwan" and "Rajneesh" are mentioned in the dialogue of the film.
  2. Despite the given English title, "Come Give Me Love" was written in Swedish.

References
  1. "Ted - Show Me Love (2018) Full Cast & Crew". imdb.com. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. Mitchell, Wendy (31 October 2016). "'Ove' director to shoot Ted Gärdestad story". screendaily.com. Screen International. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  3. af Geijerstam, Eva (2 January 2018). "Filmrecension: Inget som inte redan sagts i "Ted – för kärlekens skull"". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  4. "Regissör lockade fram Adam Pålssons teaterintresse". sverigesradio.se. Sveriges Radio P5 STHLM. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  5. Andersson, Jan-Olov (8 June 2017). "Adam Pålsson: Jag har känt mig som Ted Gärdestad sedan nyår". aftonbladet.se. Aftonbladet. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  6. Ted - för kärlekens skull (Musiken från filmen) av Adam Pålsson på Apple Music Retrieved 27 February 2018
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