Vlog filmed & edited by me of Aidan, family & friends having a blast in this majestic country!
Life on Dannholmen is special beyond description but hopefully this video will give you a taste of this sometimes quiet, sometimes wild life - depending on who is on the island!
Fjallbaka & Hamburgsund are super towns for meals and strolling, but the real joy is just sitting with friends laughing at the beauty of life on Dannholmen (made famous by Lars Schmidt & Ingrid Bergman and all of Hollywood who heard about this exclusive island and begged for invitations to come see it.)
Today the island is hosted by Kristian Schmidt and his brilliant superhero girlfriend Sara Cameron with their magical daughter Naomi who can melt you with her smile.
Also in attendance are Jonathan Posse, Daniel Larsson, CJ Larsson, and John Davis with wife & daughters. Oh yes also Celice and & Fran!
Lars Reinhold Schmidt (11 June 1917 - 18 October 2009) was a Swedish theatrical producer, director & publisher. He owned theaters in Paris, France, & Sweden.[1] Schmidt was instrumental in bringing American theater to the European stage.[2] He produced and translated numerous post-war American plays in Europe; including A Street Car Named Desire, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Oklahoma! and Anne Frank. He is considered one of the most important cultural personalities of the 20th century evolution and commercialization of European theatre.[2] In a 1964 Life magazine article, he was called "Europe's most important theatrical producer."[3] Lars Schmidt married three-time Academy Award-winning film star Ingrid Bergman in December 1958.[4]
Ingrid Bergman[a] (29 August 1915 - 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress.[1] With a career spanning five decades,[2] Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.[3] She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four). In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.[4]
Bergman acting introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her natural beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942). Bergman's performances in the 1940s include For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949).
In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation that she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She returned to Hollywood, earning two more Academy Awards for her roles in Anastasia (1956) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). During this period she also starred in Indiscreet (1958), Cactus Flower (1969), and Autumn Sonata (1978) receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination.
Bergman won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the Maxwell Anderson play Joan of Lorraine (1947). She also won two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for The Turn of the Screw (1960), and A Woman Called Golda (1982). In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday in 1982. Bergman spoke five languages - Swedish, English, German, Italian and French - and acted in each.[5]
On 21 December 1958, Bergman married Lars Schmidt, a theatrical entrepreneur from a wealthy Swedish shipping family. They spent summers together in Danholmen, Lars's private island off the coast of Sweden. The couple and their children stayed at Choisel, close to Paris. With Bergman constantly off to filming, Lars was all over Europe, producing plays and television shows. After almost two decades of marriage, the couple divorced in 1975. Nonetheless, he was by her side when she died on 29 August 1982, her 67th birthday.[156]
Kristian Schmidt is a genius producer, director, and photographer (recently winning International Photographer of the Year) - Growing up surrounded by inspiration and culture, Kristian naturally embraced creativity at a young age. Born in New York City, he left the United States shortly after with his family and spent his childhood in France and Japan. Kristian is the son of famed European stage producer Lars Schmidt and his stepmother Ingrid Bergman.