Skavabölen pojat (Finnish for "the boys from Skavaböle/Hyrylä") 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.Espoo Cine Skavabölen pojat is a story about two brothers, growing from children to adults, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, in Grankulla/Kauniainen and Skavaböle/Hyrylä in the Greater Helsinki Area.Mikä Mikä Teatteri Hyrylä
The film was awarded the Flash Forward prize at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.Skavabölen pojat won at its first foreign festival entry Yle.fi, News. Accessed 16 October 2009.
Plot The film varies between the "present" in the early 1980s, and the brothers' childhood in the early 1970s.
Cast Ilmari Järvenpää as Rupert Kallio Onni Tommila as Evert Lauri Tilkanen Iiro Panula Leea Klemola (mother) Martti Suosalo (father) Elina Knihtilä Tommi Korpela Sulevi Peltola Henriikka Salo Eila Roine
Reception In the film review column in the Helsingin Sanomat weekly supplement Nyt, four critics gave the film an average score of 3.3 out of 5.Critics' choice. Tv-Nyt, 2009, 11–17 September, p. 20.
References
External links
Jonni Aromaa: "Skavabölen pojat finally made into a film", Yleisradio