Original title: Schpaaa
Year: 1998
Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian | Mandarin
Subtitles: Bulgarian | English | Russian (.srt)
Genre: Crime | Drama

Director: Erik Poppe

Cast:
Maikel Andressen Abou-Zelof … Jonas
Jalal Zahedjekta … Emir
Sharjil Arshed … Jack
Mickael Marman … Ali
Seth Raknes … Lille Jan
Kiyana Faravardeh … Mira-Fe
Irina Eidsvold Tøien … Jonas’ Mother
Damir Dado Pudar … Emir’s Uncle
Rolf Petter Næss … Big-Shot
Stian Bonnevie Arntzen … Boy From Westside
Kjersti Borgen … Eva
Tormod Gjersvold … Substitute Teacher
Roger Mogstad … Police officer
Turid Gunnes … Politikvinne
Jag Safri … Shop Owner

Plot/Synopsis:
This is a terrifying look at multi-racial youth gangs in Norway, shot in the style of a documentary. Director Eric Poppe, whose previous work is in the field of commercial films, concentrates in his first feature on the lives of five young boys living in contemporary Oslo. Thirteen-year-old Jonas and his pal Emir, who is two years older and comes from former Yugoslavia, are good friends who both belong to a gang of Oslo youths aged between 11 and 15. Their world is dominated by committing petty crimes to earn a fast buck, often entailing drug dealing. Emir has been dealing with brain damage ever since his father hit him on the head with a wooden club; he suffers from sudden outbursts of violence against adults and his peers, and his behavior stretches the limits of his friendship with Jonas. Schpaaa (which is a slang term for ‘cool’ ) is a modern day version of a famous 1948 film from Norway called Gategutter/Street Boys, in which director Arne Skouens portrayed the lives of poor street kids in Oslo in the thirties. Erik Poppe used amateurs for all the main roles to give the narrative a more realistic look and deliberately avoided moralizing. Schpaaa made a big impression in Norway, which prompted the Ministry for Children and Family to arrange for extra screenings. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Allrovi

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Bunch of Five (1998)
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Original title: Blodsbånd
Year: 2007
Runtime: 1 hour,44 minutes
Country: Norway | Denmark
Language: Norwegian | Albanian
Subtitles: English (.hardsubs)
Genre: Crime | Drama

Director: Marius Holst

Cast:
Enrico Lo Verso … Bekim
Nazif Muarremi … Mirush
Glenn Andre Kaada … Frode
Ramadan Huseini … Ismet
Anna Bache-Wiig … Hannah
Bajrush Mjaku … Vulkan
Mirjana Karanovic … Hava
Michalis Koutsogiannakis … Kokken
Fisnik Zegeri … Armend

Plot/Synopsis:
As Marius Holst’s family drama Mirush commences, the young Slavic man of the title decides to find and rebuild a relationship with his long-estranged father. Mirush makes a grueling transcontinental journey from Kosovo, Serbia to Oslo, Norway, where the old man runs a restaurant. Father and son do indeed become reacquainted with each other, but as this occurs, Mirush realizes some deeply upsetting and disturbing truths about his dad – including the considerable debt he bears to the Albanian mafia and several pivotal character flaws. As Holst traces the contours of their relationship, he uses it to explore themes of familial estrangement and absenteeism, the indelibility of paternal legacies and the difficulty of making a clean break from one’s past, no matter how tortured and dysfunctional. ~ Nathan Southern, Allrovi

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