Released Date:
2004-09-03
Languages:
Swedish, English, Italian
Countries:
Sweden, Denmark
Runtime:
133 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (12821 Reviews)
Director:
Kay PollakAnders Nyberg
Ola Olsson
Carin Pollak
Kay Pollak
Margaretha Pollak
A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden.It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.
Released Date:
2011-12-09
Languages:
Swedish, German, Hebrew, English
Countries:
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1886 Reviews)
Director:
Lisa OhlinGenres:
DramaLinda Aronson (script consultant)
Marnie Blok (script)
Marianne Fredriksson (based on the novel by)
Lisa Ohlin (additional script writer)
Oskar Sèderlund (adaptation)
Oskar Sèderlund (head of development)
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.
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