Måste gitt (2017)

Respected suburb guy in Stockholm who lives in criminality but want to be an actor. By coincidence he dropped his diary and was found by Lena Endre who thinks its great and want to publish it...

Director:

Ivica Zubak

Writers:

Can Demirtas, Ivica Zubak

Stars:

Can Demirtas, David Nzinga, Jörgen Thorsson

1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Can Demirtas	...	Metin
David Nzinga	...	Bratte
Jörgen Thorsson	...	Puma Andersson
Selma Caglar	...	Fatma Turkoglu
Lena Endre	...	Lena
Toni Prince Tvrtkovic	...	Emre Turkoglu (as Toni-Prince Tvrtkovic)
Kaiwan Karem	...	Alaa Din (as Keywan Ali Karem)
Madeleine Martin	...	Nathalie Vallsten
Arvin Kananian	...	Erkan Bosnak
Yesim Tungert	...	Jasmin
Shebly Niavarani	...	Omar Najafi
Manuel Dubra	...	Carlos Olivares
Saeid Sharifian	...	Fatti
Candas Öz	...	Metin's dad
Doruk Öz	...	Metin as a boy

Storyline

Metin is a young man living in a Stockholm suburb governed by unwritten rules. He is different, he writes a diary of everything he sees, names and places are documented in great detail. When the book disappears his life is turned upside down. Ivica Zubak blends humor and gravity in a story about seizing life's opportunities.

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Plot Keywords:

criminal | eastern europe | stockholm sweden | petty criminal | 2010s | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

During a Q&A at the International Film Festival Rotterdam director Ivica Zubak told the audience he worked on the script from november 2012 until december 2015 with actor David Nzinga. All of the research Zubak did for the script came from the actor's life experiences growing up in a bad neighborhood.

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Connections

References Scarface (1983)

User Reviews

Seemingly impossible plot to turn into a good story, yet it worked out very well after all. Many unexpected turns of events. Ample humor as icing on the cake

Saw this at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2017 (website: https://iffr.com/en). After having read the synopsis on both the festival website as well as the distributors website (see: http://mastegitt.indiansummerfilm.se), I assumed the plot to be far-fetched and next to impossible to make a good story out of it. I was wrong with this a-priori assumption and I stand corrected.

The story develops very well, and unexpected turns of events are coming one by one. And as soon as you think that all possible surprises are exhausted, there is another one you did not see coming. Keeps your attention all the time, with a lot of humor as icing on the cake. Small but beautiful and useful roles of the father (seen a few times in flash-backs) and the mother (having an important effect at a pivotal moment), all of them having their logical place in the dramatic developments. Still more important are the fundamental laws of the street, where trust is of utmost importance and betrayal is severely punished.

Though not having won the VPRO Big Screen Award for which it was nominated by the Rotterdam film festival, it scored relatively high for the audience award, getting a deservedly 13th place (out of 172) with an average score of 4.322 (out of 5).

Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

6 January 2017 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Whack

Box Office

Budget:

SEK0 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$14,430

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film i Väst, Indian Summer Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Color:

Color