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BASTARDOS EN EL PARA�SO
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Sweden - Chile
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 115 min.
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BASTARDS IN PARADISE / B�TARDS AU PARADIS
Like most large European cities, the suburbs of Stockholm are home to immigrants of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The young people of this community are confronted with a society that is suspicious of their presence, considering them social outcasts. There is a clear division between us and them. Partly for self-protection, partly because other avenues are blocked, the foreign youth find themselves drawn into gangs and they end up in lives dominated by drugs and crime. BASTARDS IN PARADISE follows the story of one such youth, Manuel, from childhood through to adolescence and young adulthood, and examines his relationships with his family, his friends and with society at large. The story is told in two parts divided by a shooting incident in central Stockholm. This incident leads to an accidental meeting between Manuel and his old girlfriend Lena, now a policewoman, and with his best friend Kalle, now a nightclub doorman. It is a meeting that will change their lives.
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Script: Luis R. Vera.
Phot.: Sammy De la Cruz.
Ed.: Leif Eiranson.
Mus.: Daniel Bingert.
Cast: Lotta Kalge, Camilo Alanis, Daniel Ojala, Mar�a E. Cavieres, Pablo Vera-Nieto, Raquel Baeza, Freddy Bylund, Patricio Zamorano, Erik Johansson, Reza Razi.
Prod.: Luis R. Vera, Latinordisk Films, Porthansvagen 19, 16843 Stockholm (Su�de), t�l. & fax: (46-8) 5797 38 43, e-mail: [email protected] / Corfo, avenida Irarrazaval, 2821 Santiago (Chili), t�l.: (56-2) 269 18 01, fax: (56-2) 629 20 38, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Latinordisk Films.
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Luis R. Vera
Born in Santiago, Chile in 1951, Luis R. Vera studied philosophy at the University of Chile where he participated in an experimental filmmaking group. Later, in exile from Chile after the overthrow of Allende, he studied film at the University of Bucharest in Romania. He has lived in Sweden since 1979. His filmography includes: HECHOS CONSUMADOS (1985), CONSUELO (1988), El pa�s de nunca jam�s (1992) and MISS AMERIGU� (1994), which was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival. |
