''Eat Sleep Die'' ( sv, Äta sova dö) is a 2012 Swedish film written and directed by
Gabriela Pichler
Gabriela Katarina Pichler (born 11 March 1980 in Huddinge) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Pichler and her family moved from Stockholm to Örkelljunga when she was eight years old. Her mother, Ruzica Pichler, is from Bo ...
. Set in present-day
Sweden, it follows a realistic story about an unemployed young woman named Raša (
Nermina Lukac), who struggles to find a new job while simultaneously taking care of her sick father (
Milan Dragišić).
The film is Pichler's feature debut, and the cast consists primarily of amateurs. The film's main actress
Nermina Lukac has received many accolades for her performance.
The film has received several awards. At the
48th Guldbagge Awards
The 48th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2012 and took place January 21, 2013, at Cirkus in Stockholm. During the ceremony, the jury presented Guldbagge Awards (commonly re ...
it received five nominations, including in the category
Best Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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, which it also won. Gabriela Pichler was awarded two awards for
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and
Best Screenplay, and Nermina Lukac won the award for
Best Actress
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. The film was also nominated for the 2013
Nordic Council Film Prize
The Nordic Council Film Prize is an annual film prize administered by the Nordic Council. The Nordisk Film & TV Fond is the funding body that administers the prize.
History
The first award was handed out in 2002 to celebrate the Nordic Council's ...
. The film was also selected as the Swedish entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
86th Academy Awards,
but it was not nominated.
Plot
The film tells the story of 20-year-old Raša (
Nermina Lukac), who lives with her sickly father (
Milan Dragišić) in a small town in southern
Sweden. Raša works in a local factory but is laid off when the factory downsizes. The film then follows her struggle to find a new job while simultaneously taking care of her father.
Cast
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Nermina Lukač as Raša
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Milan Dragišić as the father
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Jonathan Lampinen as Nicki
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Peter Fält as Peter
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Ružica Pichler as Rosi
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Nicolaj Schröder as Olle
See also
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References
External links
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2012 films
Films set in Sweden
Films set in the 2010s
Films shot in Sweden
Swedish drama films
Best Film Guldbagge Award winners
Films whose director won the Best Director Guldbagge Award
2010s Swedish-language films
2010s Swedish films