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The Slingshot is a film of genre Drama directed by Åke Sandgren released in USA on 3 june 1994 with Stellan Skarsgård
The Slingshot (1993)
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Add to a movie listThe Slingshot (Swedish: Kådisbellan) is a 1993 Swedish drama film, starring Jesper Salén, Stellan Skarsgård and Basia Frydman. Directed by Åke Sandgren, the film was based on Roland Schütt's 1989 autobiographical novel of the same name (translates to "The Condom Slingshot").
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Roland (Salén) is the 12-year-old son of a Russian Jewish mother (Frydman) and a socialist father (Skarsgård), coming of age in 1920s Stockholm. Due to his family's background, he has become an outcast to those around him, a constant target of bullying by his peers, and often humiliated and physically punished by a sadistic schoolteacher (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) in front of classmates. In retaliation against his tormentors, Roland steals condoms from his mother's tobacco shop inventory and turns them into crude slingshot weapons. He also falls in love with a neighborhood girl (Frida Hallgren), but as Roland attempts to toughen up and improve his troubled life, he also allies with the wrong group of friends and inadvertently makes himself a juvenile offender.Actors
Stellan Skarsgård
(Fritiof Schütt)
Frida Hallgren
(Margit)
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
(Teacher Lundin)
Axel Düberg
(Inspector Gissle)
Reine Brynolfsson
(Hinke Bergegren)
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