Official Selection - Competition 2006 / Mun mot mun / Sweden, Denmark 2005
In the film Mouth to Mouth, Björn Runge continues the theme of his previous critically acclaimed dramas which uncovers the pain of seemingly contented families. This time he gives us a brilliantly filmed story about a father who desperately tries to undo the damage of distant failures and save his daughter who is tottering on the edge of drug dependency.
A dark Scandinavian drama which, beneath a mask of respectability, uncovers the terrible scars often marking the lives of middle-class families. Mats’ problems with alcohol have shaken his family: the oldest of his children, 17-year-old Vera, has run away from home and ended up on the streets. Björn Runge is not, however, merely telling the painful story of a father desperately trying to save both his disintegrating family and a daughter who becomes increasingly dependent on drugs. The raw film images of Mouth to Mouth can also be seen as a pressing question – whether Mats’ efforts are really worth the trouble; whether a secure and relatively safe, but often punishing and intimidating life within the family is truly better than a wild existence among the homeless. A world which is terrifying, but can also mean freedom.
92 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Björn Runge
/ Screenplay Björn Runge
/ Dir. of Photography Anders Bohman
/ Music Tobias Hylander
/ Editor Lena Dahlberg
/ Producer Clas Gunnarsson
/ Production Zoyd Produktion AB
/ Cast Magnus Krepper, Marie Richardson, Peter Andersson, Pernilla August, Sofia Westberg
/ Contact Swedish Film Institute, TrustNordisk, Zoyd Produktion AB, Film i Väst
Björn Runge (b. 1961, Uddevala, Sweden) made his first shorts during the mid-1980s. After completing his studies at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, he began to make a name for himself particularly with the short film Greger Olsson Buys a New Car (Greger Olsson köper en bil, 1990). Over the next decade he made several TV commercials and documentaries and also worked with one of the most original directors of the present, Roy Andersson – as Andersson’s assistant he collaborated on the parable Songs from the Second Floor (Sanger fran andra vaningen, 2000), honoured at Cannes. For his fourth feature film Daybreak (Om jag vänder mig om, 2003) – screened at Karlovy Vary in 2004 – Runge walked away with the Guldbagge Swedish national film prize, and a Silver Bear at the Berlin IFF.
Swedish Film Institute
Box 27126, S-102 52, Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 866 511 00
Fax: +46 866 118 20
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TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Phone: +45 368 687 88
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Zoyd Produktion AB
Box 7169, 402 33, Göteborg
Sweden
Phone: +46 31 295 818
Fax: +46 31 295 818
E-mail: [email protected]
Film i Väst
Box 134, SE-461 23, Trollhättan
Sweden
Phone: +46 520 490 900
Fax: +46 520 490 901
E-mail: [email protected]
Gunnar Almér
Film Institution Rep.
Björn Runge
Film Director
Clas Gunnarsson
Producer
Staffan Grönberg
Sofie Nyholm
Sales Agent
Natja Rosner
Sales Agent
Füsun Eriksen
Sales Agent
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