Christa
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jack O'connell
Birte Tove
Clinton Greyn
Daniel Gelin
Baard Ove
Gastone Rosilli
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Danish airline stewardess Christa is a warm-hearted, attractive twenty-three-year-old who enjoys a succession of short-lived affairs with male passengers at her Copenhagen apartment. One affair with wealthy businessman Torben leads to a pregnancy, which Torben wants her to abort. The couple breaks up when Christa refuses to have an abortion. Christa subsequently gives birth to a baby boy, Rolf, who is cared for by her parents while she continues working. Although she longs for a husband, none of Christa's new lovers are ready for family responsibilities. Among them are inhibited Italian Umberto, immature American graphic artist Michael and middle-aged composer Andre, who rejects her because his music must come first. When Christa finally believes she might have found the perfect mate in vacationing lawyer Derek, Torben decides that he now wants Christa and Rolf back. Having hired a detective to follow her, Derek threatens to use evidence of Christa's affairs as proof she is an unfit mother and have the boy taken away. Christa is forced to return to Torben to keep her son, but when Torben's business is ruined soon after and he deliberately kills himself in a car crash, Christa is free. With her son, Christa reunites with Derek at a nude beach, hoping that the three might form a family.
Director
Jack O'connell
Cast
Birte Tove
Clinton Greyn
Daniel Gelin
Baard Ove
Gastone Rosilli
Cyrus Elias
Susan Hurley
Inger Stender
Kjeld Jacobsen
Jorn Rose
Inge Levin
Bjorn Puggard-muller
Ejnar Feiderspiel
Crew
Laise Adser
Lennart Andersson
Viggo Bentzon
Poul Gram
Patricia Greene
Else Hennings
Mose Henry
Benni Korzen
Henning Kristiansen
Russell Lloyd
Manfred Mann
Jack O'connell
Jack O'connell
Peter Roos
Morten Schyberg
Mogens Skot-hansen
Nils Vest
Derek Wadsworth
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Christa was re-released in 1972 under the title Swedish Fly Girls. According to Filmfacts, Box Office and New York Times reviews, Christa had both English and Danish dialogue, and included English subtitles, when Danish was spoken. The Variety review noted that at one time, the film's running time was almost four hours. Christa, a U.S.-Danish co-production, was produced by New York-based Astron Films, owned by American Jack O'Connell, and Copenhagen-based Laterna Films, headed by Mogen Skot-Hansen.
A June 4, 1969 Variety article announced open auditions for the film and that shooting was to begin in Copenhagen later that summer, with interiors to be shot at Laterna Studios, Copenhagen. Although a July 16, 1969 Variety article noted that Drew Henley and E. G. Polidore were cast as leading male players, they were later replaced. The June 2, 1971 Variety review noted that Al Kooper was originally signed to score the film; however, he was replaced by Manfred Mann, reportedly because of artistic and financial difficulties. A modern source adds producer Mogens Skot Hansen, Steen Frohne and Peter Dybsten Jorgensen to the cast.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1971
Released in United States 1971
