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Last Cowboy Standing (Skavabölen pojat)

Francaise title: Le dernier cowboy
Spain title: El último vaquero
Russian title: Мальчишки из Скавабёле
Original title: Skavabölen pojat

Alternative titles:
Skavabölegrabbarna / Последний приют ковбоя / Skavabölen pojat (Die Jungs aus Skavaböle)

Tragicomedy – Finland, Germany
Production year: 2008
Movie length: 123 minutes

Director: Zaida Bergroth
Writer: Zaida Bergroth, Jan Forsström, Antti Raivio
Cinematograph: Anu Keränen
Music: Alexander Hacke

Movie description:

Â»Skavabölen pojat« (Finnish for »The boys from SkavaböleÂ«) is a 2009 Finnish 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 and Hyrylä.

In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-indians fantasies and playground romances with the neighbourhood girls. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter.
There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then their mother is taken away. Ten years later, Rupert is still haunted by his childhood memories, trying to make sense of a series of events leading to a tragedyÂ ...

In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can’t lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present ...

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