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5.8/10   517 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Matthew Allen (adaptation)
Santiago Gil (writer)
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Release Date:
20 November 1998 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
Zingo är redo för Svenssonlivet, men är Svensson redo för Zingo?
Plot:
A comedy about a young man with a tendency to screw things up. After years of unhealthy living he is looking for calm and rest... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Bizarre, yes. Funny, rarely. more (5 total)

Cast

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Björn Kjellman ... Filip Singstedt aka Zingo
Helena af Sandeberg ... Barbro aka Baby
Per Morberg ... Mos
Thomas Hellberg ... Ken Karlsson
Tommy Andersson ... Jocke

Jarmo Mäkinen ... Puda
Madeleine Elfstrand ... Bittan
Hans Henriksson ... Benno, film producer
Kjell Lennartsson ... Zingo's Dad
Matthew Allen ... Wolfgang, German film producer
Maria Lindström ... Tina, porn actress
Charlotte Allen ... Lina, porn actress
Niklas Falk ... Rune, Baby's father
Catherine Hansson ... Margareta

Martin Forsström ... Guy standing in line behind Jocke (as Martin Forström)
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Runtime:
92 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
One of the first films that had a complete digital intermediate made for digital color correction at 2K resolution. more
Quotes:
[While masturbating.]
Mos: This Guldbagge Award I would like to dedicate Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders for their wholehearted support during my long journey towards the big screen.
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Movie Connections:
References Viskningar och rop (1972) more
Soundtrack:
DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME more

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2 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Bizarre, yes. Funny, rarely., 17 December 2001
4/10
Author: Niklas Lundqvist from Hässelby, Sweden

In this Swedish comedy, we get to meet the looser Zingo, and a whole bunch of other sad and pathetic figures. Zingo wants to settle down and have a nice family life, but it takes money to start a new life. He convinces a producer that he will do a bizarre porn-film for the German market, featuring one of Sweden´s most respected actors and a moose.

All kinds of stereotypes are lined up here: the main character who wants to prove to his dad that he can succeed with his life, his younger girlfriend who just wants to party all night, his aggressive and stupid best friend. We also have the brutal biker who cuts peoples thumbs off, but also enjoys Bergman-films.

With this comes a poor script which is little believable. Björn Kjellman doesn´t succeed with making his character likeable at all, he´s quite the opposite actually. Nor does the other actors. The director clearly wanted to make a fresh and controversial movie with "Zingo", but fails.

Some jokes works, but most of the black humour misses the mark completely. It could have been good, but no. Great soundtrack though.

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