''Kådisbellan'' (''The Condom Slingshot'') is a 1989

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...

written by

Roland Schütt Fritiof Roland Schütt (born 18 April 1913 in Stockholm, dead 10 November 2005 (aged 92) in Tyresö) was a Swedish author. He was son to Fritiof and Zipa Schütt and younger brother to the author Bertil Schütt. He has hosted Tyresö närradio t ...

. The book is about Schütt's life as child during the 1920s. His mother Zipa sells

condom A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are both male and female condoms. With proper use—and use at every act of in ...

s, which was forbidden then, and Roland steals the condoms and makes

slingshot A slingshot is a small hand-powered projectile weapon. The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame, with two natural rubber strips or tubes attached to the upper two ends. The other ends of the strips lead back to a pocket that holds the pro ...

s and balloons of them. A film based on the novel, directed by

Åke Sandgren Åke Sandgren (born 13 May 1955) is a Sweden, Swedish-Denmark, Danish film director and screenwriter. He has written and directed a number of films in a variety of genres, mostly in Denmark where he now lives. Biography Sandgren studied Film Sc ...

, was released in 1993.Kådisbellan (1993) at Svensk Filmdatabas
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1989 novels Swedish autobiographies Swedish novels adapted into films {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadisbellan