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Saturday – August 24th, 2013
6:30 pm – Filmrauschpalast

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Audience Award Tromsø International Film Festival 2012, Norway

Fiction / Sweden 2011 / Swedish / German Untertitel / 118 min / Director: Ruben Östlund / Producer: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober

Ruben Ôstlund’s third feature is inspired by authentic cases in which groups of young boys robbed other children in central Göteborg. What was remarkable about the robberies was that they followed an elaborate role-play which tricked the victims without resort to violence or threats. Behind the lens of a distant documentary-style camera, the audience becomes observer and witness to a study of human behaviour that is as chilling as it is breathtaking.

“To my mind, Ruben Östlund is a star that has been missing from the firmament of Swedish cinema for quite some time, someone who follows his own artistic path and speaks of his own era.”