Twelfth Night (1967)
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Top billed cast
Bibi AnderssonViola
Ove TjernbergOrsino
Catrin WesterlundOlivia
Gösta EkmanSebastian
Toivo PawloMalvolio
Ulla SjöblomMaria
Carl-Gustaf LindstedtTobias Raap
Per OscarssonAndreas Blek af Nosen
Bertil NorströmFabio
Jens Østerholmen narr
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