Golden Beetle Swedish Film Awards - 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
The Hollywood Academy Award nominations were announced yesterday, one day after the winners of the Swedish Oscars — the Guldbagge (Golden Beetles) — were announced to considerably less fanfare (except, perhaps, in Sweden).
In any case, just because Golden Beetle winners are less internationally famous than the Oscar nominees that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re inferior. In fact, one of the nominees, the coming-of-age drama Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell is, in this blogger’s humblest-of-the-humble opinion, superior to several of the films competing for this year’s Academy Awards.
The best picture winner, however, was a film I haven’t seen, the musical drama Förortsungar / Kidz in da Hood. The story of an undocumented immigrant who, following her grandfather’s death, becomes attached to a rough-looking musician, Förortsungar also won awards for directors Ylva Gustavsson and Catti Edfeldt, screenwriters Gustavsson and Hans Renhäll, and actor Gustaf Skarsgård (as the musician), plus a special trophy for Fabian Torsson’s original score. Förortsungar will be screened at the Generation sidebar of this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Among the other winners were best actress Haddy Jallow, a 20-year-old Gambian immigrant who plays a 15-year-old rape victim in Säg att du älskar mig / Say That You Love Me, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others as best foreign film. (Volver was an also-ran, but at least it did get a nomination…)
Busy with his film’s premiere in France, Henckel von Donnersmarck was unable to attend the Guldbagge ceremony. In a letter read by German Cultural Attaché Ralf Krautkrämer, the filmmaker explained he was thrilled to win the Guldbagge because of a young Swedish girl in his (very distant) past and because of Ingmar Bergman. "That Mr. Bergman and I both have the same bug in our possession thrills me greatly."
Quote: Swedish Film Institute
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Good Film.I like it. :)