Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem

Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem
Film poster
Directed by	Jan Troell
Produced by	Göran Setterberg
Written by	Per Olov Enquist Jan Troell Göran Setterberg
Starring	Antti Reini Maria Heiskanen
Cinematography	Jan Troell
Release dates	15 November 1991 (1991-11-15) (Sweden) 6 December 1991 (1991-12-06) (Finland)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Sweden Finland Germany
Language	Finnish Swedish

Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (Swedish: Il Capitano) is a 1991 Swedish-Finnish biographical drama film directed by Jan Troell, about the 1988 Åmsele murders where a family of three was murdered by Juha Valjakkala over a stolen bicycle. Antti Reini stars as Valjakkala, renamed Jari in the film, and Maria Heiskanen as his girlfriend Marita Routalammi, renamed Minna. Being released so soon after the actual event, the film was very controversial and received highly mixed reviews, with some critics praising it for the difficult choice of subject and others condemning it for the same reason.^[1]

Cast

Antti Reini as Jari
Maria Heiskanen as Minna
Berto Marklund as Police
Antti Vierikko as Jari age 13
Harri Mallenius as Teacher
Marjut Dahlström as Teacher
Eva Stellby as Post-Mortem Dissector
Matti Dahlberg as Father
Christina Frambäck as Priest

Awards and nominations

Amanda Awards
- Best Foreign Feature Film (Troell, won)
42nd Berlin International Film Festival
- Best Director (Troell, won)^[2]
- Golden Bear (Troell, nominated)
Chicago International Film Festival
- Best Actress (Heiskanen, won)
27th Guldbagge Awards^[3]
- Best Film (won)
- Best Actor (Reini, nominated)
- Best Cinematography (Troell, nominated)
- Best Screenplay (Enquist, nominated)

References

↑ Summary/comment at the Swedish Film Institute (in Swedish)
↑ "Berlinale: 1992 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
↑ "Il Capitano (1991)". Swedish Film Institute. 17 March 2014.

External links

Il Capitano at the Internet Movie Database
Il Capitano at the Swedish Film Institute Database

Films directed by Jan Troell

Fiction films	Here Is Your Life Who Saw Him Die? The Emigrants The New Land Zandy's Bride Bang! Hurricane Flight of the Eagle Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem Hamsun As White as in Snow Everlasting Moments The Last Sentence

Documentaries	Land of Dreams A Frozen Dream

Guldbagge Award for Best Film

1963–1990	The Silence (1963/64) Swedish Wedding Night (1964/65) Heja Roland! (1965/66) Persona (1966/67) Hugo and Josephine (1967/68) The White Game (1968/69) A Swedish Love Story & Mistreatment (1969/70) The Emigrants (1970/71) The Apple War (1971/72) Cries and Whispers (1972/73) A Handful of Love (1973/74) The Last Adventure (1974/75) Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975/76) The Man on the Roof (1976/77) The Adventures of Picasso (1977/78) A Respectable Life (1978/79) To Be a Millionaire (1979/80) Children's Island (1980/81) The Simple-Minded Murderer (1981/82) Fanny and Alexander (1982/83) Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain (1984) My Life as a Dog (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Katinka & Back to Ararat (1988) The Miracle in Valby (1989) Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)

1991–present	Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991) House of Angels (1992) The Slingshot (1993) A Pizza in Jordbro (1994) All Things Fair (1995) Hamsun (1996) Tic Tac (1997) Show Me Love (1998) Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen (1999) Songs from the Second Floor (2000) As White as in Snow (2001) Lilya 4-ever (2002) Evil (2003) Dalecarlians (2004) Nina's Journey (2005) Kidz in da Hood (2006) You, the Living (2007) Everlasting Moments (2008) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) Sebbe (2010) She Monkeys (2011) Eat Sleep Die (2012) The Reunion (2013) Force Majeure (2014) The Here After (2015)

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