The Girl from Backafall (Swedish: Flickan från Backafall) is a 1953 Swedish drama film directed by Bror Bügler and starring Viola Sundberg, Sven Lindberg and Kenne Fant.^[1] It is based on a poem by Gabriel Jönsson, which had been turned into a popular song in the 1920s, about the romance between a sailor and a woman on the island of Ven in the Baltic Sea.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark.

• Viola Sundberg as Ellen
• Sven Lindberg as Per
• Kenne Fant as Nils
• Edvard Persson as Silla-Sven
• Holger Löwenadler as August Larsson
• Märta Dorff as Mrs. Larsson
• Erik 'Bullen' Berglund as Captain Backe
• Dagmar Ebbesen as Mrs. Backe
• Olof Winnerstrand as Vicar
• Aurore Palmgren as Botilla
• Olav Riégo as Dücker
• Renée Björling as Mrs. Dücker
• Charles Gregmar as Robert Dücker
• Jan Molander as Hellberg
• Verner Edberg as Adolf
• Gösta Gustafson as Matts Shoemaker
• Lars Egge as Fredrik Åkerberg
• Anders Andelius as Sailor at 'Tre bröder'
• Margit Andelius as Mrs. Svensson
• Per Appelberg as Boy at shooting range
• Astrid Bodin as Dücker's cook
• Helga Brofeldt as Gossip
• Thure Carlman as Fisherman
• Harald Emanuelsson as Lasse, postman
• Kurt Friborn as Guest at Robert's party
• Leif Hedenberg as Boy at the dance
• John Larsson as Dücker's driver
• Monica Lindman
• Sven Magnusson as Fisherman
• Gull Natorp as Vicar's wife
• Carin Norberg as Vera, Ellen's friend
• Mim Persson as Guest at the coffee party
• Bellan Roos as Dücker's housewife
• Håkan Rylander as Woker
• Bengt Sundmark as Boy at the dance
• Gaby Svallner as Guest at Robert's party
• Carin Swensson as Farmer's wife
• Olle Teimert as Boy at shooting range
• Rudolf Wendbladh as Schultze, German captain
• Annalisa Wenström as Waitress
• Berit Örtengren as Girl at shooting range

• Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

• The Girl from Backafall at IMDb