Tigers (2020 film)

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Tigers
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Film poster
Directed by Ronnie Sandahl
Screenplay byRonnie Sandahl
Based onI skuggan av San Siro
by Martin Bengtsson
Produced by
  • Piodor Gustafsson
  • Lucia Nicolai
  • Marcello Paolillo
  • Birgitte Skovl
Starring Erik Enge
CinematographyMarek Wieser
Edited byÅsa Mossberg
Music byJonas Colstrup
Production
companies
  • Black Spark Film & TV
  • Art Of Panic
  • SF Studios Production AB
Release date
  • 18 October 2020 (2020-10-18)(Roma) [1]
Running time
116 minutes
Countries
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • Italy
  • Spain
Languages
  • English
  • Swedish
  • Italian
Box office$ 2 559 [2]

Tigers is a 2020 international co-produced sports drama film written and directed by Ronnie Sandahl and based on the autobiography I skuggan av San Siro by Martin Bengtsson. It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Plot

The movie surrounds the true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtsson's (Erik Enge) time as a 16-year-old professional footballer at the Italian club Inter Milan. [3] [4]

Cast

Reception

Critical response

Tigers has an approval rating of 67% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 6.3/10. [5] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [6]

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

See also

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References

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  2. "Tigers (2020)". Box Office Mojo.
  3. "ROME 2020 - Review: Tigers". Cineuropa. 20 October 2020.
  4. Ide2020-10-30T13:18:00+00:00, Wendy. "'Tigers': Busan Review". Screen. Retrieved 17 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tigers_2020
  6. https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tigers?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1c
  7. "Busan International Film Festival (2020)". IMDb. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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