Lejonjakten (1908)

Release Date:	1908, May 13
Countries:	Sweden
Production:	K. O. Krantz, Lundastudenternas karnevalskommitté
Cast:	Gustaf Lundskog, Per Olsson, Torsten Rietz, E.G. Sjögren

Overview:

"Lejonjakten" is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the University of Lund, Sweden, as a part of their 1908 carnival. The film is a cruel parody on Danish producer Ole Olsen's "Løvejagten" (1907) which was at the time banned in Denmark (due to the fact that a lion and other animals were actually killed in the film) but shown in Sweden. In the student version two actors dressed up as a lion and a kangaroo get shot by hunters, but the hunters themselves soon get arrested by the police, an allusion to a recent conflict between the students and the local police.