Nasty old people
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Nasty Old People is a 2009
Swedish
film directed by Hanna Sköld, Tangram Film. It premiered on 10 October 2009 at Kontrapunkt in Malmö
and on file sharing site The Pirate Bay
.
gang, while her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until one night she assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and in company with her crazy oldies she longs for respect and love. She can tell that the old folks are marginalized by the modern society, but together they create a world and a voice of their own.
To finance the film, director Hanna Sköld took a bankloan and received some financial support from the regional film fund, Film i Skåne. Most of the production, however, was done without any payment.
Subtitles in Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Spanish have been contributed by viewers, as well as original English and Swedish. Thus the movie has applied the same strategy as many open source
software projects to improve and add additional features.
2009 in film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
Swedish
Cinema of Sweden
Swedish cinema is known as producing many critically acclaimed movies, and during the 20th century was the most prominent of Scandinavia. This is largely due to the popularity and prominence of the directors Ingmar Bergman, Victor Sjöström, and more recently Lasse Hallström and Lukas...
film directed by Hanna Sköld, Tangram Film. It premiered on 10 October 2009 at Kontrapunkt in Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
and on file sharing site The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which hosts magnet links and .torrent files, which allow users to share electronic files, including multimedia, computer games and software via BitTorrent...
.
Plot
A young woman, Mette, is a member of a neo-NaziNeo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....
gang, while her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until one night she assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and in company with her crazy oldies she longs for respect and love. She can tell that the old folks are marginalized by the modern society, but together they create a world and a voice of their own.
Cast
- Febe Nilsson as Mette
- Karin Bertling as Elsie
- Cecile Anckarswärd as Märta
- Håkan Jeppsson as Mr. W
- Rune Bergman as Harald
- Torkel PeterssonTorkel PeterssonTorkel Petersson is a Swedish actor born in Lund, Sweden, on August 19, 1969.-Selected filmography:*1999: Zero Tolerance *2000: Jalla! Jalla!*2002: Old Men in New Cars *2003: Kopps...
as gardener - Anna Nevander as Ida
- David Book as neo-Nazi
Production
The setting for the film was inspired by friends of the director who had worked with the elderly (Jessica Hilton). The protagonist is loosely based on a person the director met who turned out to be an ex-neo-Nazi (Otis Robinson).To finance the film, director Hanna Sköld took a bankloan and received some financial support from the regional film fund, Film i Skåne. Most of the production, however, was done without any payment.
Release
Distribution of the movie is mostly done using BitTorrent, this dramatically decreases distribution costs compared to traditional methods and instead relies on users and viewers for further distribution of the movie. Thus distribution of this movie is not controlled by the makers of the film but by the community of viewers and fans. Each individual can help by continuing to seed the movie's BitTorrent. Hanna Sköld states on her blog that digital distribution of her movie may be better for the environment, since there is no need to print DVDs, package and transport them.Subtitles in Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and Spanish have been contributed by viewers, as well as original English and Swedish. Thus the movie has applied the same strategy as many open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software projects to improve and add additional features.
External links
- Official website
- Nasty old people at The Pirate BayThe Pirate BayThe Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which hosts magnet links and .torrent files, which allow users to share electronic files, including multimedia, computer games and software via BitTorrent...
- Nasty old people at the Swedish Film InstituteSwedish Film InstituteThe Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the Filmhuset building located in Gärdet, Östermalm in Stockholm...