Snapphanar is a Swedish

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 miniseries

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 made for TV/DVD film which aired in three parts on Sveriges Television

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 during Christmas

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 2006, directed by Måns Mårlind

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 and Björn Stein. The historical drama is about the Snapphane

Snapphane

A snapphane was a member of a 17th century pro-Danish guerrilla organization that fought against the Swedes in the Second Northern and Scanian Wars, primarily in the former eastern Danish provinces which in the course of these wars became southern Sweden....

 peasant rebel movement which fought against the Swedish rule of Scania

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in the 17th century. The "Snapphanar" was a rebellion people, who fought secretly for Denmark during 1660-1700.

The miniseries were criticised by historians on grounds of lacking historical accuracy. The Scanian nationalist attitudes portrayed in the series did not exist in the 17th century, and the term snapphane, which is used for self-identification in the series, was in fact a derogatory term used by Swedes.