PRODUCTION INFO
Title: Underdog (Svenskjävel)
Original Title: Svenskjävel
Format: Feature
Language: Swedish, Norwegian
Duration: 97 minutes
Release: 2014
CREW
Director: Ronnie Sandahl
Screenwriter: Ronnie Sandahl
DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
Editor: Åsa Mossberg
Producers: Annika Hellström / Cinenic Film, Martin Persson / Anagram, Gudny Hummelvoll / Hummelfilm
CAST
Bianca Kronlöf
Henrik Rafaelsen
Mona Kristiansen
Petronella Barker
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Yellow Affair
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
TriArt Film
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2014 Zurich International Film Festival (awarded with BEST DEBUT award plus TWO SPECIAL MENTION for acting), Switzerland
2014 Chicago Film Festival (winner of GOLD HUGO in New directors Competition), USA
2014 Nordic Film Days (winner Baltic Award), Germany
2014 Vilnius International Film Festival (Best Actress in LesArcs and Vilnius Int’l FF)
SYNOPSIS
23-year-old Dino dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of
her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau- riche Oslo. But her new life is caught in deadlock – Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive loop of temporary jobs, nancial trouble and hard partying.
A broken arm incidentally leads to a position as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home. Dino is thrown into a reality very far from her own. During a few sultry summer weeks she ends up in the centre of an odd love triangle, an unpredictable struggle for a affection as well as dominance.
