Four Shades of Brown ( Fyra nyanser av brunt ) ( Hembygd (4 Shades of Brown) )

Four Shades of Brown (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Fyra nyanser av brunt
Alternate Title: Hembygd (4 Shades of Brown)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
184 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Tomas Alfredson

Written By:
Tomas Alfredson
Robert Gustafsson

Actors:
Robert Gustafsson ..... Christer/Johan
Maria Kulle ..... Anna
Karl Linnertorp ..... Morgan
Jonas Inde ..... Ray/Tony
Johan Rheborg ..... Kjell Levrén/Ernst
Karin Holmberg ..... Arbetsterapeuten
Viktor Friberg ..... Jan
Eva Ekengren ..... Mådan
Tore Persson ..... Morgan's Teacher
Henrik Schyffert ..... Richard
Anna Björk ..... Tove
Iwar Wiklander ..... Jan-Erik
Karin Ekström ..... Smulan
Finn Nielsen ..... Perikles
Fyr Thorvald Strömberg ..... Keskinen (as Fyr Torvald)

Synopsis:

Four Shades of Brown is the first feature film by Swedish comedy group Killinggänget. A kaleidoscopic magnification of human - Swedish - behaviour and mores, it tells four different stories. A well-dressed man, having just completed his life's work, meets his destiny, in the shape of a little man made out of wood. In the south of Sweden a zealous father tries to encourage his son, by showing him the joys of small animal cremation. In Gothenburg, a diverse group of people convene, in the belief that they will learn how to cook. And somewhere in the north, a patriarch dies. His sons attend the funeral, which manifests strong oriental influences.

In the film version, the stories are presented interweaved, although story-wise completely unconnected. In the television version, each story constitutes one episode and works as an independent television film, varying in length between 40 and 60 minutes.

Landins (The Landins)

Christer Landin, the father in a family living in a community in Scania, southern Sweden, tries to motivate his son who is falling behind in school by bringing him to his workplace as a pet cremator. Accidentally, the son turns on the crematory oven just in the wrong moment and the father is severely burned. Life still has to go on, and while the son is feeling guilty, the father goes through rehabilitation where he learns to speak again and befriends other local people also suffering from speech disabilities.

En dålig idé (A bad idea)

Richard Brunn, a man with a lifetime subscription to the magazine Wallpaper*, is together with his wife opening a top designed beachside hotel. They are visited by Richard's parents who work as stage magicians. The parents bring an easy-going Dane and a wooden statuette representing a former minister, which Richard finds to be extremely tasteless, and which triggers a mental breakdown.

Min sista vilja (My last will)

The deceased Sören H. Lindberg, an equally eccentric as successful harness racing driver and trainer from Dalarna, has left a bizarre will demanding various acts and arrangements to be performed at his funeral. As his three sons and countless mistresses are gathered, the sorrow and confusion is processed, and everybody is curious of who will inherit which part of his wealth. Eventually it turns out that all money has been spent on a hologram of Lindberg telling them that he used the money to create the hologram. Furthermore, his best horse is given away to the National Estonian Trotting Association without any explanation.

Pappas lilla tjockis (Dad's little fatso)

A cooking class in Gothenburg develops into a therapy session for lost souls. Johan is unable to get really close to anyone, including his wife, and keeps telling lies about his progress to the group. Ernst is dysfunctional and unable to get a job, and shifts between feeling very charismatic and like a total misfit. Jenny feels bad about not being able to keep herself from using irony and sarcasm to hurt people who don't understand when she's serious and when she's not. Olle is troubled by the breakup of his marriage.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 11 September, 2009.

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