Two boys grow up together in the town of Pajala during the 1960s. United by rock'n'roll music.
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Max Enderfors | ... | Matti 15 år / yo |
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Andreas af Enehielm | ... | Niila 15 år / yo |
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Niklas Ulfvarson | ... | Matti 7 år / yo |
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Tommy Vallikari | ... | Niila 7 år / yo |
| Björn Kjellman | ... | Greger | |
| Göran Forsmark | ... | Birger | |
| Jarmo Mäkinen | ... | Isak / Niila's father | |
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Gustav Wiklund | ... | Ryssi-Jussi |
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Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala | ... | Farmor / Grandmother |
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Carina M. Johansson | ... | Solveig |
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Carla Abrahamsen | ... | Maggan |
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Ville Kivelä | ... | Erkki |
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Filip Pachucki | ... | Holgeri (as Filip Pachuchi) |
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Matti and his friend Niila, who is an unusually quiet boy feeling bad because his father is abusing him grow up in Pajala in the 60's. They share the interest in music since the day Niila got a vinyl single with the song "Rock and Roll Music" and they played it on Matti's sister's gramophone. It's the same day they also share another thing that matters to history: a kiss. Although they are just "innocent" prepubertal children, the narrator does not let us forget that part. Fast-forwarding to high school and Matti has begun to be interested in girls and women and browsing frantically in porn magazines as soon as he gets hold of one. But Niila does not seem at all interested in girls, he is only interested in guitar playing and to escape from the small-town mistress à la Fucking Åmål. Written by lament
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Release Date:
24 September 2004 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Musique rock de Vittula See more »Edit
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EUR2,224,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Lyrics by B.S. Ingemann (Danish text 1850 - "Dejlig er Jorden") and
Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg (Swedish text 1884)
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The film is set in North-Eastern Sweden, where people commonly speak both Swedish and Finnish. However, when Reza Bagher was chosen to direct this film, he first decided that the film should include only Swedish language dialog. After few days at location in Pajala, he changed his mind and agreed that it wouldn't be authentic to omit Finnish completely. See more »Goofs
A local store display the front page of the daily newspaper "Nya Norrland" who was sold in Sollefteå and the surrounding area, 700 kilometers from Tornedalen. See more »Soundtracks
Härlig är jordenLyrics by B.S. Ingemann (Danish text 1850 - "Dejlig er Jorden") and
Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg (Swedish text 1884)
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In the era of limited and underdeveloped means of communication, it is not easy to cope with outside influences as life at home, school and township is handled in a "historical", traditional manner. Life is hard, with lots of manual labour, thin population (but big families) and long distances do not provide versatile diversity... All this was characteristic to rural areas in Sweden where Matti and Niila had to spend their childhood and youth. Then, new music trends were brought into their lives, but its nature and consequences were not as expected in the beginning.
The cast is rather strong, includes some interesting individuals, and children/youngsters performing Matti and Niila at different ages are talented; moreover, there are versatile Finnish and Swedish actors in supporting roles. On the other hand, Populärmusik från Vittula is not a family film, especially for "decent" families, as it contains rude language, nudity and heavy drinking... But as based on the book with the same name, I am sure that the portrayal of everything is realistic.