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TSATSIKI, MUM AND THE POLICEMAN |
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Felicia Film AB, in co-operation with Film i Väst, Norsk Film AS, Per Holst Film A/S, DR B&U, RUV and TV 1000, with support from the Swedish Film Institute Charlotta Denward, Nordic Film & TV Fund - Dag Alveberg and Eurimages.
Prod: Anne Ingvar; Dir: Ella Lemhagen; Scr: Ulf Stark, based on the novels Tsatsiki och morsan and Tsatsiki och farsan by Moni Nilsson-Brännström; Ph: Anders Bohman; Prod des: Jack van Domburg; Cost des: Moa Li Lemhagen Schalin; Ed: Bernhard Winkler; Mus: Popsicle.
Original title: Tsatsiki, morsan & polisen
With Samuel Haus (Tsatsiki), Alexandra Rapaport (Tina), Jacob Ericksson (Göran), Jonas Karlsson (Niklas), George Nakas (Tsatsiki’s father), Sam Kessel (Per Hammar), Isa Engström (Maria Grynwall), Marcus Hasselborg (Mårten).
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Nordisk Film International Sales.
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Tsatsiki (Samuel Haus) with heart's desire number one (Maria Grynwall, played by Isa Engström).
Most of the remaining Swedish scenes for Tsatsiki were filmed in Trollhättan, doubling up for the suburbs of the capital, with a few key scenes - like those on the Stockholm subway - shot in the city itself. The film opened to unanimously good reviews in October of last year, and broke audience records for a Swedish family film. But even they could not have predicted that Tsatsiki would still be running as the long Swedish winter came to a close, with a 75% boost in audience figures following the February 7 announcement of the National Awards.
Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman is the debut live-action feature from Felicia Film, made as a co-production with Per Holst Film in Denmark. The company was set up in 1995 as the Swedish production arm of Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film, which is part of the worldwide Egmont Group. Ingvar herself started her career in Denmark with Holst, whom she describes as her “producing mentor”. And it was while she was there that she worked very closely with legendary Swedish director Bo Widerberg on the post-production of All Things Fair (Lust og fägring stor), which would turn out to be his last film.
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“I want to do projects that I really want to see in the cinema,” notes Ingvar. “The specific mix of warmth, humour, seriousness and intimacy is important, and I think we got that right in Tsatsiki. I’ve sneaked into several screenings and have seen audiences both laughing and crying.
“My next film will be for children and adults,” concludes the producer. “I want to find stories with different levels that can reach a wide audience. I am sure I will one day make a film just for adults, but never before have children spent so much time with TV, film and video, so I think it’s important to go on producing quality films for children and family audiences.”
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