1957 - this is when the space age begins. The Soviets send up Sputnik 1 and 2. The whole world searches the sky for moving stars and the radio amateurs listen in their headphones for beeps from space. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries are shown in cinemas. Stockholm gets its first female parking attendants and Tommy Steele comes to visit.

Cast

Jonas Fohlin

Narrator

Brita Borg

Self

Ingmar Bergman

Self (archive footage)

Tommy Steele

Self (archive footage)

Towa Carson

Self

Elsy Lindgren

Self