A 10-year-old boy battles life's many persecutions with ingenuity and self-awareness.
The Slingshot
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An endearing coming-of-age drama set in 1920s Stockholm, The Slingshot follows the adventures of 10-year-old Roland Schütt (Jesper Salén), the son of a Jewish mother, Zipa (Basia Frydman), and a socialist father, Fritiof (Stellan Skarsgård). Living in a society that considers his father's politics to be treason and his mother's religion blasphemy, the boy encounters ceaseless bullying and prejudice from his schoolmates and teachers. A magnet for comically painful mishaps of all kinds, Roland endures all these hardships by shutting himself away with his inventions, one of which is a super slingshot. And like that slingshot, Roland springs back again and again from each setback, growing from each experience, until, in his typically ingenious way, he ultimately turns the tables on his oppressors.
Cast and crew
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Åke Sandgren
Director, Writer -
Jesper Salén
Roland Schütt -
Stellan Skarsgård
Fritiof Schütt -
Basia Frydman
Zipa Schütt -
Niklas Olund
Bertil Schütt -
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Magister Lundin -
ERNST GÜNTHER
Överläraren -
Axel Düberg
Kommissarie Gissle -
Reine Brynolfsson
Hinke Berggren - Socialistledare -
Heinz Hopf
Skohandlaren -
Margreth Weivers
Dr. Kopowskis sköterska -
Frida Hallgren
Fitt-Margit -
Tomas Norström
Boxningstränaren -
Ing-Marie Carlsson
Karin Adamsson - Socialist -
Rolf Lassgård
En fånge -
Jurek Sawka
Dr. Kopowski - Ortoped -
Tommy Johnson
Smeden -
Per Sandberg
Socialist -
Rolf Eberg
Hovmålarens assistent -
Viktor Friberg
Andersson -
Pär Ericson
Rektorn på Skrubba -
Kenneth Söderman
Lärare på Skrubba -
Claes Hartelius
Kund i tobaksaffären -
Göran Engman
Helmersson -
Michael Kallaanvaara
Mannen i buskarna med Fitt-Margit -
Carl Magnus Dellow
En polis -
Roland Schütt
Writer
Additional information
Directors
Åke SandgrenDirectors
Studio
Sony PicturesStudio
Subtitles
EnglishEnglish (CC)
Subtitles
English (CC)
Genres
DramaForeign/Independent
Genres
Foreign/Independent
Writers
Åke SandgrenRoland Schütt
Writers
Roland Schütt
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