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Basic facts

Original title Badaren
Film type Short
Category Fiction
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Production country
Production company
Awards
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Plot summary

"An indoor swimming pool in Sweden. There’s a man floating around in the middle of the pool. The police order him to get out, to be arrested, but the man carries on swimming. Swimmer is a...

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Crew

Director
Screenplay
Producer
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Film Commissioner

Cast

Companies

Production Company French Quarter Film AB
Advance allocations Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet

Plot summary

"An indoor swimming pool in Sweden. There’s a man floating around in the middle of the pool. The police order him to get out, to be arrested, but the man carries on swimming. Swimmer is a humorous short film about a dramatic arrest that turns into an anticlimax." (the production company's synopsis)

Technical specifications

Length in minutes 13 min
Dialogue


Release dates

Festival showing 2020-01-25 Haga 1 Gothenburg Sweden Göteborg Filmfestival 2020
TV showing 2020-05-21 SVT1 Sweden
Festival showing 2020-10-24 Reginateatern Uppsala Sweden Uppsala Kortfilmfestival 2020
TV showing 2020-12-21 SVT2 Sweden
2021-06-26 SVT1 Sweden
2022-08-18 SVT1 Sweden

Awards

Festival Award North Bend 2021 Jonatan Etzler (bästa regi / Best Director, North Bend Film Festival, USA)

Holdings Film

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

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