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Kidz In Da Hood
''Kidz in da Hood'' (Swedish title: ''Förortsungar'' lit. "Suburb kids") is a 2006 Swedish film directed by Catti Edfeldt and Ylva Gustavsson. The film is also known as ''F.O.U.'' in Sweden (promotional abbreviation). This is the story of Amina, a girl from Sierra Leone seeking asylum in Sweden. The second key figure in the story is Headbanger Johan, played by Gustaf Skarsgård. The film is about how their paths cross - a meeting that will change both their lives forever. Filming took place in Fittja and began on 21 November 2005. The film won five Guldbagge Awards in 2007 in the categories Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best performance for which the jury put it, "attitude and rocking the music." Cast * Beylula Kidane Adgoy as Amina * Gustaf Skarsgård as Johan * Embla Hjulström as Mirre * Jennifer Brown as Janet * Sanna Ekman as Maggan * Sunil Munshi as Jesper * Hannu Kiaviaho as Pecka * Teodor Runsjö as Micke * Jonathan Kurkson as Has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catti Edfeldt
The Chatti (also Chatthi or Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe whose homeland was near the upper Weser (''Visurgis''). They lived in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of that river and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder and Fulda regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse-Kassel, though probably somewhat more extensive. They settled within the region in the first century BC. According to Tacitus, the Batavians and Cananefates of his time, tribes living within the Roman Empire, were descended from part of the Chatti, who left their homeland after an internal quarrel drove them out, to take up new lands at the mouth of the Rhine. Proto-history The extremely large timescale of Prehistoric Europe left stone tools and weapons dating from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age that were chronologically ordered and dated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tribes such as the Chatti, Cimbri, and Langobardi have not be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
