Trivia / My Life as a Dog

• It took twenty-six takes to film one of the scenes where Ingemar spills milk on his face.
• Prior to this film, Anton Glanzelius had worked primarily in television (one Swedish TV movie and appearances on a Swedish TV series). Glanzelius was turned down after his initial audition on the grounds that he was too young and small. He received a call a week later from the production team saying “they couldn’t find anyone better”. Glanzelius later became the youngest person to win a Guldbagge Award (the Swedish Oscar) For Best Actor in 1986.
• A sequel to this film was reportedly in the works in the early 1990s. It was to be an English-language sequel titled either My Life as a Dog at Sea or My Father, His Son, with Reidar Jönsson returning as screenwriter and Glanzelius reprising the role of Ingemar. The plot would have been set four years after the events of My Life as a Dog, with a 16-year-old Ingemar aboard a freighter in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic, going on adventures and searching for his sailor father. The project was later abandoned. Talks of a sequel resurfaced again in 2009 with plans for a different actor playing the teenaged Ingemar, but again the project did not materialize.