Culture of Sweden

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The Swedish culture is generally perceived like egalitarian, simple, and opened with the international influences. Forever known Sweden the Serfdom, and the country small farmers traditionally had a capacity and an influence in the national businesses, not having probably an equivalent in the other Western countries. It is also considered that the ethical Protestant woman was a major force having modelled current Swedish mentality.

External influences

The greatest sources of influences on the Swedish culture were the Catholic church and Germany during the Middle Ages, France during the 18th century (mainly thanks to the king Gustave III. During the 19th century, the essence of the influence came again from Germany; and, since the end of the Second world war, the country is very influenced by the Anglo-Saxon world, mainly by the United States.

Gastronomy

The Swedish dishes are traditionally simple, a typical meal making up of potatoes cooked with the vapor, of a piece of meat or fish, of a rustic sauce, and a little vegetables. The fish holds a place important in the plate of Swedish. Nowadays, the culinary practices however approached the Western average, and the spaghettis compete in popularity with at one time dominant potatoes.

The Swedes belong to the large-scale consumers of Café in the world, preceded only by the Finnish. The Beer, the Milk and the Eau generally accompany the meals.

Among the traditional culinary preparations, one can raise the Pitepalt, the Köttbullar, the Gravlax, and the Surströmming. The Swedish Pain also holds a place with share in the European kitchen.

Cinema

Swedish cinema industry is one of most known in the world. The recognition starts with the innovation of its first years, during the dumb period, where one saw flowering the talent of the visionaries Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström, which revealed in the world the Swedish cinema and its single vision of the world.

Ingmar Bergman, regarded as one of the most influential scenario writers of the XXe century, emerged like a prominent figure of the cinema in the years 1950, with its existential epic work the Seventh Seal . It continued its career by carrying out a multitude of psychological dramas acclaimed by criticism. Two of its films in particular, Persona and Cries and whispers accepted an unequalled critical adulation and placed Sweden among the most progressive entities of the world cinema. The naturalist révéré Jan Troell, as well as the social playwright Bo Widerberg was going quickly to follow Bergman as Swedish visual artists of foreground.

Among the known actresses and actors, one counts Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, max von Sydow, Stellan Skarsgård, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin and Peter Stormare.

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