Sebbe

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Movie
Original title Sebbe
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 2010
length 80 minutes
Rod
Director Babak Najafi
script Babak Najafi
production Rebecka Lafrenz ,
Mimmi Spång
camera Simon Pramsten
cut Andreas Nilsson
occupation
  • Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs: Sebbe Hallin
  • Kenny Wåhlbrink: Kenny
  • Eva Melander : Eva Hallin
  • Adrian Ringman: Adde
  • Emil Kadeby: Emil

Sebbe is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Babak Najafi .

action

Sebastian Hallin, known as Sebbe, is insulted, harassed and beaten up as a fag at school by his classmates, especially his neighbor Kenny. Therefore he withdraws more and more and is late for school every now and then. He finds his place of retreat in tinkering with technology, because his home is also rather difficult, as his single mother hardly earns any money to look after herself and her son, she drowns her frustration in alcohol and keeps her son as a "ungrateful roast" designated.

For his 15th birthday, Sebbe wants nothing more than a motorcycle, which is why he tinkered his own motorcycle with the scrap he had collected from a bicycle. Eva, on the other hand, feels bad that she has no money to give her son a present, which is why she wrapped a good winter jacket, which she found in the shared laundry room of the apartment building, as a gift and gave it to Sebbe. He is overjoyed and proudly wears this jacket to school, but unfortunately it is the jacket of his neighbor and tormentor Kenny who exposes him as a thief in front of the assembled school.

But it gets worse, because after Sebbe wanted to apologize for his mother to Kenny, Kenny refuses and tells his mother about it, who then also exposes Eva as a thief. This makes Eva so angry that she takes out her frustration on Sebbe and throws him out of the house, because as a thief and single mother she would have failed, so that Sebbe, whom she never wanted and for whom she never wanted to give up her life, disappear must. But Sebbe does not want to and is horrified to find that he is not only finished at school, but also no longer has a home, so he drives to the mine, steals dynamite and uses his technical understanding to build a bomb he wants to use in school.

But first he phoned his mother and apologized to her for his existence and that she had to give up her life for him. Eva immediately knows that something is wrong and asks her son to come home, but he goes to his class with his explosives, unpacks him and looks into the fearful faces of his classmates, some of whom are innocent. His teacher immediately approaches him, speaks to him and says that any problem could be solved. But Sebbe got scared herself and fled.

Then he sits with his mother in a café and she tearfully tells him that she could no longer take care of him and that he would have to look for someone new. Both go away and Sebbe tells his mother that he will come later because he has to do something first. And so he leaves and leaves his mother.

criticism

“It took a long time,” said Jeanette Gentele in the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet , until she found such a “naked and overly sensitive game, [which] is so calm and bound, and yet so expressive, where the body language stands for itself speaks “again in a movie. This “great story” is not disappointing despite the “heavy content” and, thanks to an elaborate soundtrack, it has an “additional emotional dimension”.

This “Swedish suburban tragedy with a high visual class” was “hard, gray and terrible for Sebbe”, said Helena Lindblad in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter . In this "irrational relationship" between mother and son, especially because of the mistreatment, the "most heartbreaking [the] unshakable loyalty of Sebbe to his mother".

Ronnit Hasson gave the film 4 stars in the Swedish tabloid Expressen and said that the inexperienced Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs in his acting debut "draws an empathetic and tough portrait of Sebbe". The changeable mother-son relationship also shows “heat, vulnerability and anger”, which the director Najafi shows with the “shifting of circumstances with strength and insight”.

background

  • According to his own statement, Najafi, as a director with a migration background, absolutely wanted to avoid making a film about migrants and foreigners.
  • Najafi's intention of the story was to show that in a country like Sweden it is “more difficult to be poor than in a poor country”.
  • The film was shot in Gothenburg within 40 days .
  • Although there was a script and lines of dialogue, most of the conversations in the film were improvised during the shoot.
  • Many of the youth actors are friends with the main actor Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs. Kenny Wåhlbrink, who plays Sebbe's greatest tormentor, has been very close friends with Sebastian for over 10 years.

Soundtrack

  1. Tiger Lou - A Partial Print
  2. Taken by Trees - To Lose Someone
  3. Taken by Trees: Only Yesterday
  4. Tape - Leafed Hands
  5. Tape - Moth Wings
  6. Laleh - Forgive But Not Forget
  7. James Blackshaw: Echo and Abyss
  8. Le Coducteur: Amores perros
  9. Moderate: A New Error
  10. Matti Bye: Sebbes pianotema
  11. Ivo Pogorelich : Preludium, piano, op.28. No. 4, E minor
  12. Espen Jørgensen: Move Ahead - Quickly
  13. Stars of the Lid : A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning (less) Process

Awards (selection)

publication

The world premiere of Sebbe was on January 31, 2010 at the Göteborg International Film Festiva and even before the film had its Swedish theatrical release on March 12, 2010, it was shown at the Berlinale 2010 on February 16, 2010. And although the film has already been shown on several international film festivals, no further theatrical release outside Sweden is planned.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeanette Gentele: Klassberättelse av klass on svd.se of January 25, 2011 (Swedish), accessed on September 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Helena Lindblad: ”Sebbe” on dn.se from March 12, 2010 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011
  3. ↑ Ronnit Hasson: Sebbe ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on expressen.se of March 11, 2010 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.expressen.se
  4. ↑ Marvin: Sebbe: What did the poet mean by that? - Many would like to know that  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Unser-luebeck.de from November 5, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.unser-luebeck.de  
  5. ↑ Daniel Lindvall: Babak Najafi: Learning to See Sweden - in Tehran on filmint.nu from January 1, 2011 (English), accessed on September 25, 2011
  6. ↑ Michael Malmborg: En dag med Sebbe ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on filmivast.se on June 18, 2009 (Swedish), accessed on September 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmivast.se
  7. ↑ a b The first ECFA Award goes to SEBBE ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 703 kB) at ecfaweb.org , 4/2010 (English), accessed on September 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecfaweb.org