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Play (2011) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
113 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Ruben Östlund

Written By:
Ruben Östlund
Erik Hemmendorff

Actors:
Kevin Vaz ..... Kevin
Abdiaziz Hilowle ..... Abdi
Anas Abdirahman ..... Anas
Johan Jonason ..... Arg pappa #1
John Ortiz ..... John
Yannick Diakité ..... Yannick
Martin McFaul ..... Arg pappa #2
Adam Nygren ..... Reggaekille på spårvagn
Nana Manu ..... Nana
Sebastian Blyckert ..... Sebastian
Peggy Johansson ..... Tågvärd
Tobias Åkesson ..... Tågvärd
Sebastian Hegmar ..... Alex

Synopsis:

Set against the inner city backdrop in central Gothenburg, Sweden, PLAY is a frequently harrowing and thoughtful film about manipulation, bullying, identity, race and customs. It is based on a series of real cases of bullying and robbery that occurred between 2006 and 2008 when a group of boys, aged 12-14, rob other children on about 40 occasions.

In Gothenburg a gang of five black teenage boys act out an elaborate scheme for taking the belongings of one Asian and two white teenage boys, in which the blacks play good cop/bad cop. First they ask the time. When one of the victims checks the time on his mobile phone they claim it looks like the one that was stolen from a brother of one of them. The three boys have to come along to verify this with the brother. After some moving around, one boy of the gang wants to quit; the gang leader responds with beating him up and kicking him. The four remaining gang members proceed with the three boys. At one point the seven have to flee from a gang of adults, and one black and one white boy together get separated from the other five. By phone they find out the location of the others and reunite. They end up in a deserted place where the four force the three to participate in a running contest, with one of the three against one of the four, where the group of the winner gets all valuables of all the boys. The two walk along a curved path to the starting point from where they have to run back to the others. The three lose due to a trick of the four: the boy from the group of three thought they had to run along the path, but the other boy ran straight. The three are now free to go. They have no phone to contact their parents and no money for the tram, so they travel without a ticket; they do not explain this to the conductor, and get fined and scolded by him for fare evasion. Later the father of one of the victims confronts a gang member, but this is disapproved of by a female bystander who interprets this as racist.

An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 October, 2013.

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