Top billed cast

1. 

   Anton Glanzelius

   Ingemar Johansson

2. 

   Tomas von Brömssen

   Ingemar's Uncle Gunnar

3. 

   Anki Lidén

   Ingemar's Mother

4. 

   Melinda Kinnaman

   Saga

5. 

   Kicki Rundgren

   Gunnar's Wife Ulla

6. 

   Lennart Hjulström

   The Artist

7. 

   Ing-Marie Carlsson

   Berit

8. 

   Leif Ericson

   Uncle Sandberg

9. 

   Christina Carlwind

   Mrs. Sandberg

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Reviews

A review by Harry_Gill

Written by Harry_Gill on 2026-06-20

The film's title translates a Swedish idiom for rotten luck. That tells you everything about how 12-year-old Ingemar processes the world. He doesn't get angry. He doesn't break down. He finds worse situations and measures himself against them.

The dog he keeps returning to is Laika, the Soviet space dog sent up in Sputnik 2 with no plan to bring her back. Ingemar can't release that image. He stacks it against his own circumstances: mother dying of tuberculosis, separated from his brother, shipped off to a small rural town to live with his uncle and aunt. Against Laika's fate, his own pain b...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Swedish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$8,300,000.00

Keywords

• underdog
• based on novel or book
• sweden
• uncle
• loneliness
• rural area
• dog
• transsexual
• tomboy
• 1950s
• boxing