Skavabölen pojat is a 2009 Finnish

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 drama film. It was directed by Zaida Bergroth and based on a play by the same name, written by Antti Raivio in 1991 and performed at Q-teatteri in the 1990s. Skavabölen pojat is a story about two brothers, growing from children to adults, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, in Kauniainen

Kauniainen

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 and Hyrylä

Hyrylä

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The film was awarded the Flash Forward prize at the Pusan International Film Festival

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 in South Korea

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Plot

The film varies between the "present" in the early 1980s, and the brothers' childhood in the early 1970s.

Cast

• Ilmari Järvenpää
• Onni Tommila
• Lauri Tilkanen
• Iiro Panula
• Leea Klemola (mother)
• Martti Suosalo
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   (father)
• Elina Knihtilä
• Tommi Korpela
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• Sulevi Peltola
• Henriikka Salo
• Eila Roine

Reception

In the film review column in the Helsingin Sanomat

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weekly supplement Nyt, four critics gave the film an average score of 3.3 out of 5.

External links

• Jonni Aromaa: "Skavabölen pojat finally made into a film", Yleisradio
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