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Bloodbrothers
DVD cover
SwedishBlodsbröder
Directed by Daniel Fridell
Written byGrace Maharaj-Eriksson
Produced by Kaj Ellertsson [ sv]
Daniel Fridell
Mirijam Johansson
Anders Lennberg [ sv]
Liam Norberg [ pt; sv]
StarringLiam Norberg
Thorsten Flinck
Sofia Helin
Reine Brynolfsson
Thomas Hedengran
Noomi Rapace
CinematographyJohn Hellberg
Edited byOrvar Anklew
Håkan Wärn
Jelena Mrdjanov
Music by Johan Söderqvist [ de; sv]
Distributed byPublic Art Entertainment AB
Release date
  • 2 December 2005 (2005-12-02)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

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]

Plot

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.

Cast

Production

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]

Reception

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]

References

  1. ^ "Bloodbrothers (BLODSBRÖDER)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Blodsbröder (2005)". Svensk Filmdatabas (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Blodsbröder (2005)". Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  4. ^ Jeanette, Gentele (1 December 2005). "Blodsbröder". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Fridell tvåfaldigt tillbaka". Svenska Dagbladet (TT/Spektra) (in Swedish). 29 November 2005. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  6. ^ Strage, Fredrik (1 December 2005). "Totalkollaps för Blodsbröder". Dagens Nyheter.
  7. ^ Guwallius, Esbjörn (1 December 2005). "Blodsbröder en positiv överraskning" (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  8. ^ Andersson, Jan-Olov (2 December 2005). "Bättre än väntat". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 July 2021.

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