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Four Shades of Brown
Original theatrical release poster
Directed byTomas Alfredson
Written byTomas Alfredson
Robert Gustafsson
Jonas Inde
Andres Lokko
Martin Luuk
Johan Rheborg
Henrik Schyffert
Produced byCaisa Westling
StarringRobert Gustafsson
Johan Rheborg
Henrik Schyffert
Jonas Inde
Maria Kulle
Ulf Brunnberg
CinematographyLeif Benjour
Edited byLouise Brattberg
Distributed byAB Svensk Filmindustri
Release date
9 February 2004
Running time
192 min.
210 min. (TV version)
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

Four Shades of Brown (Template:Lang-sv) is a Swedish dark comedy film from 2004 directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring the comedy group Killinggänget, including Robert Gustafsson, Johan Rheborg and Henrik Schyffert. The three-hour film is divided into four separate stories about different life tragedies, with settlements related to fatherhood as the common theme.[1] In the spring of 2005 it was also aired as an extended four-episodes miniseries on Swedish Television.

Episodes

In the film version, the stories are presented intertwined, although story-wise completely disconnected. However in the television version, each story makes up one episode and works as an independent television movie, varying in length between 40 and 60 minutes.[2]

Skåne (Landins)

Synopsis

A father in southern Sweden tries to activate his son who is falling behind in school by bringing him to his workplace as a pet cremator. Accidentally, the son turns on the crematory oven just in the wrong moment and the father is severely burned. Life still has to go on, and while the son is feeling guilty, the father goes through rehabilitation where learns to speak again and befriends other local people also suffering from speech disabilities.

Cast

Hotell Brunn (En dålig idé)

Synopsis

Richard Brunn is a man with a lifetime subscription to the magazine Wallpaper* who together with his wife is opening a top designed beachside hotel. They are visited by Richard's parents who work as stage magicians. The parents bring an easy-going Dane and a wooden statuette representing a former minister, which Richard finds to be extremely tasteless and somewhat triggers a mental crisis.

Cast

Dalarna (Min sista vilja)

Synopsis

A bizarre will is left by the deceased Sören H. Lindberg, an equally eccentric as successful harness racing driver and trainer, demanding various acts and arrangements to be performed at his funeral. As his three sons and countless mistresses are gathered the sorrow and confusion is processed, and everybody is curious of who will inherit which part of his wealth. Eventually it turns out that all money has been spent on a hologram of Lindberg telling them that he used the money to create the hologram. Furthermore, his best horse is given away to the National Estonian Trotting Association without any motivation.

Cast

  • Jonas Inde as Tony
  • Anders Johannisson as Kenneth
  • Oskar Thunberg as Mikael
  • Elisabet Carlsson as Johanna
  • Conny Linnteg as Sören H. Lindberg
  • Åsa Widéen as Turid
  • Sofia Rönnegård as Stina
  • Jan-Erik Emretsson as konferenciern
  • Kiran Ahuja as Fröken Bosse
  • Henry Castenland as Tarmo Mägi
  • Peter Carlsson as Sören' Voice
  • Alice Isakson as Guest at Funeral
  • Sally Sjöblom as Singing Guest at Funeral
  • Fred Lindberg as Kenneth's Son
  • Amanda Majetic as Kenneth's Daughter
  • Embla Hjulström as Kenneth's Daughter

Göteborg (Pappas lilla tjockis)

Synopsis

A cooking class develops into a therapy session for lost souls. Johan is unable to get really close to anyone, including his wife, and keeps telling lies about his progress to the group. Ernst is dysfunctional and unable to get a job, and shifts between feeling very charismatic and like a total misfit. Jenny feels bad about not being able to keep herself from using irony and sarcasm to hurt people who don't understand when she's serious and when she's not. Olle has a dark past of sexually abusing his own daughter.

Cast

Awards and nominations

Four Shades of Brown won four Guldbagge Awards in 2005: Best Actor (Robert Gustafsson), Best Actress (Maria Kulle), Best Direction (Tomas Alfredson) and Best Supporting Actor (Ulf Brunnberg). It was also nominated for Best Film (Caisa Westling ), Best Actor (Johan Rheborg), Best Cinematography (Leif Benjour) and Best Screenplay (Killinggänget).

References