The New Country (2000)
Det nya landet
A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
- Date of release
- 2000-11-24
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
Casting
- Mike Almayehu — Ali
- Michalis Koutsogiannakis — Massoud
- Lia Boysen — Louise
- Lars Väringer — Kjell
- Nicholas Riesbeck — Mackan
- Evert Lindkvist — The Old Man
- Inga Ålenius — The Old Lady
- Jan Åström — Big Bert
- Simon Norrthon — Greger
- Anette Lindbäck — Eva
- Ingrid Luterkort — Edith
- Christian Brandin
Interesting facts
The New Country is a Swedish mini TV-series and feature film from 2000, directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen and written by Peter Birro and Lukas Moodysson. The mini-series version had a huge audience on national television, SVT and the feature film version won more awards around the world than any other Swedish feature in 2001. Some Swedish newspapers and critics has chosen The New Country as best Swedish TV mini-series ever and it is by many considered the beginning of Swedish "multicultural" cinema.
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