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Director
  
Ake Sandgren

Music director
  
Bjorn Isfalt

Duration
  

Language
  
Swedish

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Ake Sandgren

Country
  
Sweden

The Slingshot (film) movie poster

Release date
  
24 September 1993 (1993-09-24)

Writer
  
Ake Sandgren, Roland Schutt (book)

Initial release
  
September 24, 1993 (Sweden)

Cast
  
Stellan Skarsgård
(Fritiof Schütt),
Jesper Salén
(Roland Schütt),
Basia Frydman
(Zipa Schütt),
Niclas Olund
(Bertil Schütt),
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
(Lundin),
Reine Brynolfsson
(Hinke Bergegren)

Similar movies
  
Set in Sweden, Movies about bullying, Dramas

The slingshot trailer 1993


The Slingshot (Swedish: Kådisbellan) is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 24 September 1993, starring Jesper Salén, Stellan Skarsgård and Basia Frydman. Directed by Åke Sandgren, the film was based on Roland Schütt's 1989 autobiographical novel of the same name (translates to "The Condom Slingshot").

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Plot

Roland (Salén) is the 12-year-old son of a Russian Jewish mother (Frydman) and a socialist father (Skarsgård), coming of age in 1920s Stockholm. Due to his family's background, he has become an outcast to those around him, a constant target of bullying by his peers, and often humiliated and physically punished by a sadistic schoolteacher (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) in front of classmates. In retaliation against his tormentors, Roland steals condoms from his mother's tobacco shop inventory and turns them into crude slingshot weapons. He also falls in love with a neighborhood girl (Frida Hallgren), but as Roland attempts to toughen up and improve his troubled life, he also allies with the wrong group of friends and inadvertently makes himself a juvenile offender.

Shooting

Most outdoor scenes were shot in Prague as the Stockholm townscape at the time was considered to have undergone too many changes to depict the 1920s.

Cast

  • Jesper Salén as Roland Schütt
  • Stellan Skarsgård as Fritiof Schütt
  • Basia Frydman as Zipa Schütt
  • Niklas Olund as Bertil Schütt
  • Ernst-Hugo Järegård as Teacher Lundin
  • Ernst Günther as Principal
  • Axel Düberg as Inspector Gissle
  • Reine Brynolfsson as Hinke Berggren
  • Heinz Hopf as Shoe salesman
  • Frida Hallgren as Margit
  • Tomas Norström as Boxing Trainer
  • Ing-Marie Carlsson as Karin Adamsson
  • Rolf Lassgård as Prisoner
  • Reception

    The Danish-Swedish production has an 89% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. AllMovie critic Clarke Fountain called the film an "affectionate, richly detailed portrait", while film critic James Berardinelli gave the film three and a half out of four stars and called it "a wonderful mix of tragedy, humor, and triumph." Conversely, the Washington Post had an unfavorable view of the movie and called the story "a catalogue of catastrophes that surely left the real protagonist with many emotional scars."

    At the 29th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Film. Åke Sandgren was nominated for both Best Director and Best Screenplay, while Basia Frydman was nominated for Best Actress.

    The film was the Swedish submission to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not make nomination.

    References

    The Slingshot (film) Wikipedia
    The Slingshot (film) IMDb The Slingshot (film) themoviedb.org