Mitt i livet (FRIDA)

Filmed: First half 1996

Location: Polar Music Studios, Stockholm, Sweden, Frida's summer home in Puerto d'Andraitx, Majorca and studio interview

Broadcast: See below

Release status: See below

Duration: 49:34

Shown in: Sweden and Finland

Additional information

Mitt i livet = In the Middle of Life

This was a lovely Swedish language documentary promoting Djupa Andetag (Deep Breaths) which was a seated studio interview with Frida by Finnish-born Mark Levengood interspersed with footage of Frida:

  1. In Polar Music Studios with Anders Glenmark
  2. At a photo shoot at her summer home in Puerto d'Andraitx, Majorca
  3. Filming the video to Även en blomma 
  4. On a summer camp with children 
  5. Footage of her with her husband Ruzzo Reuss
  6. Playing golf with Mark Levengood

There are also full performances of:

  1. Djupa Andetag 
  2. Ögonen
  3. Sista Valsen Med Dej
  4. Älska Mig Alltid.

Broadcast information:
Friday 20 September 1996, 22:10 - 23:00, SVT2, Sweden
Wednesday 30 October 1996, Channel 1 at 22.00, Finland

Release information:
Parts of the interview and song clips were included in the Frida Box Set released on 5 December 2005.
SVT had released this programme in its Open Archive website but it has since been removed.

Archive data from Swedish Media Database:
SVT2 1996-09-20
Fullständig tablå
22.10 Frida - mitt i livet
Tablåinnehåll Anni-Frid Lyngstad-Reuss är tillbaka i rampljuset igen. I ett närgånget porträtt av en våra absolut största artister följer vi henne i skivstudion, under fotograferingar och videoinspelning, i hennes miljöarbete och på golfbanan - och så bjuder hon in till sitt sommarhem på Mallorca. Intervju: Mark Levengood. (Även i SVT1 21.9) Stockholm. TVB96-2294--2295
23.00 Rapport.
Utgivning
År/datum 1996-09-20
Kanal SVT2
Utgivning Stockholm : SVT, SVT2
Utgivningsland Sverige
Exemplar
VHS TV97-0795
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Arkivnummer TV97-0795
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Färg färg
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Arkivnummer TVB96-2294
1 tum B LP TVB96-2295
Antal enheter 1
Ljud stereo
Färg färg
Mått 1 tum
Leverantör SVT
Arkivnummer TVB96-2295
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Filbeskrivning 1,5 Mbit/s, MPEG-1 layer 2, 48 kHz, 128 kbit/s
Arkivnummer ZS_svt_svt2_1996-09-20
MPEG-2 YA_TV97-0795

Some information from Intermezzo No. 20. Thanks to Ulla Riihinen, Raffem.com, Jozsef, Jan Bach, Eduardo Souza, Philippe Dupont and Alex Jones. Thanks to Grant Whittingham c/o ABBAMAIL (no longer online).
YouTube link c/o inomadi100

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