The Rooster

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Tuppen (Pijetao) je duhovita komedija poznatog švedskog redatelja Lassea Hallstroema o životu u doba drugog svjetskog rata u švedskoj provinciji, kad vladaju oskudica, glad i neimaština, ali ipak najviše nedostaje - muškaraca! Radnja ove duhovite komedije događa se u malenome švedskom gradiću u doba Drugog svjetskog rata. Većina se muškaraca bori u Norveškoj, a žene su ostale kod kuće i rade u uspješnoj tvornici tekstila. Jednoga dana u tvornicu dolazi mladi nespretni inženjer Sederkvist. On je odlučan u namjeri da poboljša učinkovitost proizvodnje i spava sa što više žena. Poboljšanje proizvodnje mu baš ne polazi za rukom, a žene ga zbog njegove nespretnosti većinom ignoriraju. No portir iz obližnjeg hotela posuđuje Sederkvistu automobil, daje mu hotelsku sobu s gramofonom, u kojoj je posluženo i vino. Rat je i žene su svega željne, pa će možda automobil, vino i dobre ploče pomoći čak i takvom nespretnjakoviću kao što je Sederkvist ...

Cederkvist (Magnus Haerenstram) starts strutting around an all-women textile mill soon after he arrives as the regional "efficiency expert" determined to whip the plant into clock-work order and bed down whomever he can. (The time is WW II and all the men are apparently away fighting.) Naturally, neither his job nor his crass display of male foibles endears him to any of the young women at the plant - they loudly ignore him. Meanwhile, a crafty porter at a local hotel (Allan Edwall) has concocted a scheme to drum up some business - and his own take as a consequence. He loans Cederkvist a wood-burning 1931 Ford (a surprise to anyone not privy to car history), provides him a hotel room equipped with wine and music - and these three attributes are enough to overcome any bad impressions he created with the women at the plant. For reasons that are taken from some realm unknown to humankind, the attractive, well-endowed young woman jump enthusiastically into bed with this moron, after all,