Dinosaur761 despcribed it quite well already, but I'd go a little farther. When you look any Scandinavian movie you can probably make the same assumption. Even in the most Southern locations like Southern Denmark. In there it is not 24h sunlight nor 24h darkness at any time, but in mid-Summer even at the time when it is not daylight, it is still not totally dark and in mid-Winter at the times when there is some daylight present it is not as bright as one could imagine..
And during the midsummer in Uppsala at 4am it would be bright enough to read a newspaper outside.
I know this because I've lived near Helsinki (in Finland) for some time which is about as North as Uppsala.
And of course the difference in brightness during summer/winter grows deeper the northern you go. (I now live in the city of Oulu, Finland where sun shines even more during the Summer and it is even more dark during the Winter. It is not yet 24h sunlight/darkness, though.)
For those that cannot understand what it means, you might want to look an American movie called Imsonmia (2002) (I know it is a remake of a Norwegian film, but that is probably very difficult to find - and obviously more difficult than the American version), which shows well what it might feel like in 24h sunlight.
And for the darkness there are also some other American (meaning popular) films that have had that scenery. The only film that comes in mind right now is 30 Days of Night (2007) (which I haven't seen so I don't actually know if that describes it very well).
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