Most American based readers are likely familiar with the classic 1935 Hollywood version of the story, Ruggles of Red Gap, spoofing a culture clash and the social pretensions when a representative of the British class system is brought out as a manservant to a wild and lowbrow Western town in the more open and democratic USA
Here we have a clash between a representative of the Scandinavian servant elite, with not so many opportunities anymore in a more modern world to serve aristocrats with civilized tastes and fine manners, taking a job with a grocer's assistant, who lives in an auto junkyard, to maintain his pride in his profession.(The assistant has come into an unexpected inheritance and that's what he wants to spend his money on)
At first shocked by the low rent situation he has gotten into, the new butler comes to enjoy serving not only the assistant but his con artist cronies a "bishop" and another character named Igor ,and to find a welcome place for himself in the humble milieu.
This unpretentious little comedy wins a viewer over with its sweet charm.
This unpretentious little comedy wins a viewer over with its sweet charm.