Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Roros best friend, Måns, has his own ...
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| Fares Fares | ... | Roro | |
| Torkel Petersson | ... | Måns | |
| Tuva Novotny | ... | Lisa | |
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Laleh Pourkarim | ... | Yasmin |
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Leonard Terfelt | ... | Paul |
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Jan Fares | ... | Farsan |
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Sofi Helleday | ... | Jenny (as Sofi Ahlström Helleday) |
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Benyam Eriksson | ... | Benson |
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Khatoun Fares | ... | Farmor |
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Abdulahad Fares | ... | Abdul |
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Ingemar Carlehed | ... | Pappa Ulf |
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Harry Goldstein | ... | Sexbutiksägare |
| Tommy Andersson | ... | Peter | |
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Christer Fjällström | ... | Polis |
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Jacob Tamm | ... | Simon Pramsten |
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Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Roros best friend, Måns, has his own problems: He has serious problems getting an erection... Written by Benjamin Stello
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alliteration in title | repetition in title | friendship between men | immigrant | male in underwear |Taglines:
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Country:
SwedenRelease Date:
22 December 2000 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
A násznagy esküvc591je See more »Company Credits
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Måns: Ehm, what?
Polis: Well, there's furniture on the street, under your balcony...
Måns: I accidentally dropped them...
Polis: Really? How?
Måns: I don't know... I was going to... refurbish... a little and then i tripped... it was some little... edge that...
Polis: On the balcony?
Måns: Yes, exactly...
Polis: With a whole drawer, a TV and an aquarium?
Måns: Mm...
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Performed by Loop Troop
Lyrics by Promoe, Supreme and Cosm.i.c
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Set in Trollhättan, Örebro and Göteborg (all Sweden). See more »Goofs
In the first scene where the Electric Golf Car is running slowly on the street there are two cars behind it, blowing their horns. The next time we see the golf car in the same street some days later, the same cars are seen behind it. See more »Quotes
Polis: [Måns is arrested by the police after throwing out furniture] Well, how did this happen?Måns: Ehm, what?
Polis: Well, there's furniture on the street, under your balcony...
Måns: I accidentally dropped them...
Polis: Really? How?
Måns: I don't know... I was going to... refurbish... a little and then i tripped... it was some little... edge that...
Polis: On the balcony?
Måns: Yes, exactly...
Polis: With a whole drawer, a TV and an aquarium?
Måns: Mm...
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What can you expect from a Swedish comedy that is called "Jalla! Jalla!" and that has been made with an unknown cast by a man you've never heard of before? Quite a lot as this movie proves. It's subject certainly isn't one of the easiest, but Josef Fares made a good movie out of it.
Don't ask me what "Jalla! Jalla!" stands for, because I really don't know. I don't even know if it is Arabic or Swedish (I guess the first). But what I do know is that this is a movie about Roro a man from Lebanese origin who works as a park attendant with his best friend Måns. Roro has a Swedish girlfriend, something that he doesn't want his parents to know , and is forced to marry a Lebanese/Swedish girl. He likes her but doesn't love her, but decides to marry her anyway to help her, because if she doesn't marry, her brother will send her back to Lebanon to their parents. Måns has entirely different problems. He has a relationship too, but because he's having potency problems, his relationships isn't exactly going very well. While Måns tries to fix his problem, using all kinds of methods, Roro has to try to keep up appearances while stalling the wedding plans and maintaining the relationship with his unknowing girlfriend.
I must say that I didn't expect all that much about this movie. Normally a movie about mixed relationships or other multi-cultural society problems tends to get incredibly preachy. But not this movie, instead of showing how bad and racist the 'white man' is and how nice the 'black man', this movie has made a comedy out of it. And it works. The characters and the situations that they get in are believable, but more important also incredibly funny.
The acting too was very nice. I had never heard of any of the actors before, but I must say that they all did a very nice job. Most surprising is probably that most of them has never played in any other movie before or since this one. Does that mean that these aren't professional actors? I don't know, but I sure hope to see them again soon, because I really had a very good time with this movie and I can't remember being annoyed by it once. That's also the reason why I give this movie at least a 7.5/10.