| When Darkness Falls | |
| Director: | Arne Mattsson |
| Producer: | Rune Waldekranz |
| Screenplay: | Maria Lang |
| Based On: | Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård 1954 novel by Maria Lang |
| Starring: | Nils Asther Karl-Arne Holmsten Birgitta Pettersson Elsa Prawitz Adolf Jahr Mimi Nelson George Fant |
| Music: | Torbjörn Lundquist |
| Cinematography: | Hilding Bladh |
| Editing: | Lennart Wallén |
| Studio: | Sandrews |
| Distributor: | Sandrews |
| Runtime: | 113 minutes |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Language: | Swedish |
When Darkness Falls (Swedish: När mörkret faller) is a 1960 Swedish thriller film directed by Arne Mattsson. The film is based on Maria Langs 1954 novel Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård. The film stars Nils Asther, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Birgitta Pettersson, Elsa Prawitz, Adolf Jahr, Mimi Nelson and George Fant.[1] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Barbro Lindström. It was followed by a sequel Lovely Is the Summer Night in 1961.
The young orphan girl Elisabeth from Stockholm is going to celebrate Christmas with relatives in Västlinge vicarage. When she arrives the day before Christmas the local shopkeeper is meant to pick her up at the station, but because of a misconception, Elisabeth is left to walk alone in the dark, in the deep snow all the way to the house. There she is warmly welcomed by the vicar Tord Ekstedt and his daughter Lotta, but the Christmas stillness ends abruptly when they on Christmas eve finds out that the shopkeeper has been found brutally murdered in his shop.[2]