UNDERDOG
(SVENSKJÄVEL)

BY RONNIE SANDAHL

PRODUCTION INFO

Title: Underdog (Svenskjävel)

Format: Feature

Language: Swedish, Norwegian

Duration: 97 minutes

Release: 2014

 

CREW

Director: Ronnie Sandahl

Screenwriter: Ronnie Sandahl

Cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt

Editor: Åsa Mossberg

Producers: Annika Hellström / Cinenic Film, Martin Persson / Anagram, Gudny Hummelvoll / Hummelfilm

 

CAST

Bianka Kronlöf

Henrik Rafaelsen

Mona Kristiansen

Petronella Barker

 

INTERNATIONAL SALES

Yellow Affair

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NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION

TriArt Film

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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

2014 Zurich International Film Festival (awarded with BEST DEBUT award plus TWO SPECIAL MENTION for acting), Switzerland

2014 Chicago Film Festiva (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)

Underdog
(Svenskjävel)

Synopsis
23-year-old Dino (Bianca Kronlöf) 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.

”Underdog” is a tender and raw story of privilege and longing, yet at the same time a humorous and unmerciful observation of the shifted power balance between Sweden and Norway – an actuality where Swedes have become the Norwegians’ servants.