Bloodbrothers | |
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Swedish | Blodsbröder |
Directed by | Daniel Fridell |
Written by | Grace Maharaj-Eriksson |
Produced by |
Kaj Ellertsson Daniel Fridell Mirijam Johansson Anders Lennberg Liam Norberg |
Starring | Liam Norberg Thorsten Flinck Sofia Helin Reine Brynolfsson Thomas Hedengran Noomi Rapace |
Cinematography | John Hellberg |
Edited by | Orvar Anklew Håkan Wärn Jelena Mrdjanov |
Music by | Johan Söderqvist |
Distributed by | Public Art Entertainment AB |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Bloodbrothers ( Swedish: Blodsbröder) [1] is a 2005 Swedish crime film directed by Daniel Fridell starring Liam Norberg, Thorsten Flinck, Sofia Helin, Thomas Hedengran and Noomi Rapace. [2] The film released on 2 December 2005 in Sweden. [3]
30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
Blodsbröder was filmed on a very small budget of 500,000 SEK and took three years to make. [4] The movie is an independent sequel to Fridell's earlier movie Sökarna, released more than ten years later. [5]
Fredrik Strage called Blodsbröder a "total collapse" ("totalkollaps") in a review in Dagens Nyheter. [6] Esbjörn Guwallius, writing for Swedish film site film.nu, described it as a "positive surprise", while noting that many would probably call it a fiasco. [7] Writing for Svenska Dagbladet, Jeanette Gentele called it "exciting, well exectued and a little bit amusing" ("spännande och välgjord och även litet rolig") while Jan-Olov Andersson called it "better than expected" in Aftonbladet. [8]