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Sofia Helin Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm-Helin is a Swedish actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Awards, Guldbagge Award for her role in ''Dalecarlians (film), Dalecarlians'', and stars as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series ''T ...

, Thomas Hedengran and

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. The film released on 2 December 2005 in Sweden.

Plot

30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.

Cast

Production

''Blodsbröder'' was filmed on a very small budget of 500,000 SEK and took three years to make. The movie is an independent sequel to Fridell's earlier movie ''

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'', released more than ten years later.

Reception

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called ''Blodsbröder'' a "total collapse" ("totalkollaps") in a review in

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. Esbjörn Guwallius, writing for Swedish film site film.nu, described it as a "positive surprise", while noting that many would probably call it a fiasco. Writing for

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, Jeanette Gentele called it "exciting, well executed and a little bit amusing" ("spännande och välgjord och även litet rolig") while Jan-Olov Andersson called it "better than expected" in

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References

External links

* 2005 drama films 2005 films Films directed by Daniel Fridell Swedish drama films 2000s Swedish-language films 2000s Swedish films Films scored by Johan Söderqvist Swedish-language drama films {{2000s-Sweden-film-stub