The New Country is a Swedish mini TV-series and feature film

Feature film

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 from 2000, directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

Geir Hansteen Jörgensen is a Swedish television/film director. His most famous works are probably the film and TV mini-series The New Country and the The Soloists...

 and written by Peter Birro

Peter Birro

Peter Birro is a Swedish script writer, poet and musician.In the 1980s and early 1990s, Birro was an obscure poet who performed with the almost equally obscure Swedish band The Christer Petterssons...

 and Lukas Moodysson

Lukas Moodysson

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. The mini-series version had a huge audience at national television, SVT

Sveriges Television

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 and the feature film version won more awards around the world than any other Swedish feature in 2001. Some Swedish newspapers and critics has chosen The New Country as best Swedish TV mini-series ever and it is by many considered the beginning of Swedish "multicultural" cinema.

Plot

Two refugees, Ali and Massoud run away from their asylum camp and meet Louise, a former miss Sweden. Together in an old rusty car they are on the run from the police and old memories through the Swedish summer countryside.

Cast (main characters)

• Mike Almayehu (Ali)
• Michalis Koutsogiannakis (Massoud)
• Lia Boysen (Louise)

External links

• Swedish Film Institute
• New York Times