Skavabölen pojat

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Skavabölen pojat
Directed by Zaida Bergroth
Written by Jan Forsström
Produced by Nicole Gerhards, Jarkko Hentula, Hanneke M. van der Tas
Starring Lauri Tilkanen, Iiro Panula, Ilmari Järvenpää, Onni Tommila, Leea Klemola, Martti Suosalo
Edited by Niels Pagh Andersen
Music by Alexander Hacke
Production
company
Release date
  • 4 September 2009 (2009-09-04)
Running time
2 h 6 m
Country Finland
Language Finnish

Skavabölen pojat (Finnish for "the boys from Skavaböle/Hyrylä") is a 2009 Finnish drama film. It was directed by Zaida Bergroth and based on a play by the same name, written by Antti Raivio in 1991 and performed at Q-teatteri in the 1990s. [1] Skavabölen pojat is a story about two brothers, growing from children to adults, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, in Grankulla/Kauniainen and Skavaböle/Hyrylä in the Greater Helsinki Area. [2]

Contents

The film was awarded the Flash Forward prize at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. [3]

Plot

The film varies between the "present" in the early 1980s, and the brothers' childhood in the early 1970s.

Cast

Reception

In the film review column in the Helsingin Sanomat weekly supplement Nyt , four critics gave the film an average score of 3.3 out of 5. [4]

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References

  1. Espoo Cine
  2. Mikä Mikä Teatteri Archived 2009-08-10 at the Wayback Machine Hyrylä
  3. Skavabölen pojat won at its first foreign festival entry Yle.fi, News. Accessed 16 October 2009.
  4. Critics' choice. Tv-Nyt, 2009, 11–17 September, p. 20.