Love in tin cans
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love in tin cans |
| Original title | The bästa sommaren |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulf Malmros |
| script | Ulf Malmros, Vasa |
| production | Lars Jonsson |
| music |
Henrik Medquist , Dan Sundquist |
| camera | Mats Olofsson |
| cut |
Fredrik Abrahamsen , Michal Leszczylowski |
| occupation | |
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The Swedish children's film Love in Tin Cans (original title: Den bästa sommaren ) is a tragic comedy. The Swedish premiere was on March 3, 2000. The international English distribution title is A Summer Tale .
action
The two orphans Mårten and Annika go to the undertaker Yngve Johansson during the summer holidays in 1958, where everything has to go according to fixed times. The first thing the children do is turn off his large grandfather clock, because after all, it's vacation. And they also mess up a lot of things in his life.
Mårten and Annika are viewed very critically by the narrow-minded villagers. This makes the two of them closer to each other all the faster. The children notice that Yngve Johansson is basically a dear and shy person who has a similar life to them, so they want to help him and finally manage to get together with the teacher Ms. Svanström. And the tender relationship between Mårten and Annika is also getting deeper. So they decide to show their love forever by tattooing their names on each other's arms. The youth authority displeases this behavior and demands that the children be separated immediately and returned to their foster parents.
The children run away and when they are found threaten to jump off a roof together. However, Johansson can persuade her not to do it. Back on the ground, the youth authorities want to arrest and separate the children. Only at the very last moment Johansson takes heart and prevents the children from being transported away. He wants to marry Mrs. Svanström and together they want to adopt the children.
people
Mårten is a scared boy. He suffers very much from the fact that his mother has died. He processes this by writing her letters in which he tells her about his experiences. Mårten is very smart and works hard on himself. He wants to become a lawyer to make the world a better place. By meeting Annika he becomes more courageous and experiences his first love.
Annika has difficulties at school, from which she suffers a lot. She is very brave and doesn't want anyone to dictate anything to her. Annika longs for tenderness, so she would like to become a hooker later because she doesn't need any special grades for that, and for money she is also hugged. Annika learns through her love for Mårten that you have to adapt to other people too.
Yngve Johansson attaches great importance to order and discipline. Everything has to follow fixed rules with him. The severity only serves him as a protection so as not to let anyone get too close. He is very reserved and does not dare to speak his mind. Through his love for the children, he too matures in his behavior and finally dares to stand by his opinion.
background
According to the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen, the film shows the complicated relationship between children and adults. Mårten and Annika gradually uncover the contradictions in the behavior of adults. They learn to play roles and thereby develop self-confidence, which ironically they even pass on to the adult Johansson. Growing social skills are increasingly replacing the child's fateful thinking as with the magical tin cans that gave the title.
Reviews
“Ulf Malmros has succeeded in creating a wonderfully light, delicate movie comedy that reflects all the bizarre things in life, both large and small, with a lot of philanthropy. The fact that it is the children in particular who can put Johannsson’s feelings back into order in their immediate, unprejudiced way makes the film a children's film for children and adults alike. And as Johannson, Kjell Bergqvist is a wonderful Walter Matthau of the north. ”
Www.tvtv.de
Awards
In 2000, Love in Tin Cans received two German film awards; the LUCAS award and the children's film award at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck. Ulf Malmros also received the Dutch Cinekid Film Award and the Finnish Olulu Award for Den bästa sommaren .
This is followed in 2001 by the Swedish Guldbagge Prize for Kjell Bergqvist as best actor. Ulf Malmros also received the audience award for Den bästa sommaren at the Norwegian Children's Film Festival in Kristiansand.
Web links
- Love in tin cans in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The contradictions of adult figures wikis.hawk-hhg.de, accessed on: February 6, 2015.
- ↑ The children and their development process wikis.hawk-hhg.de, accessed on: February 6, 2015.
- ↑ From observation to active action wikis.hawk-hhg.de, accessed on: February 6, 2015.