Simon and the Oaks

Simon och ekarna, feature film, 2011.

DIRECTED BY: Lisa Ohlin

Simon and the Oaks

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

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