Simon and the Oaks
Simon och ekarna, feature film, 2011.
DIRECTED BY: Lisa Ohlin
CAST:
Bill Skarsgård (Simon Larsson),
Helen Sjöholm (Karin Larsson),
Stefan Gödicke (Erik Larsson),
Karl Linnertorp (Isak Lentov),
Jan Josef Liefers (Ruben Lentov)
SCRIPT:
Marnie Blok,
Lisa Ohlin (prema romanu Marianne Fredriksson)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Dan Laustsen
Synopsis:
Young Simon lives in a happy working class family in rural Sweden. He is intellectually gifted, and talks his parents into enrolling him into a prestigious school. There he makes friends with a rich “city” boy Isak. His father Ruben is a Jew who escaped to Sweden from Nazi persecution, but his family suffers the effects of anti-Semitism in the new country as well. Fascinated by Ruben’s books, art and music, Simon wants to find out more about his own family background.
color, DCP, 122 min