Bröderna Karlsson (2010)
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Björn Bengtsson, Tuva Novotny, Johan Rabaeus, Jessica Zandén
A career-minded lawyer’s orderly life is upended when he discovers he has a twin brother.
The story
Niclas Bering is a career-minded lawyer who has been single for a long time and keeps getting dumped after dating online. When a woman is hired at his workplace, he becomes infatuated with her, and things seem to be going well. Then he learns that his biological mother, with whom he had never been in contact, has died—and that he has a twin brother. Niclas travels to Luleå to meet Hasse, whom he has not seen since they were ten months old. Hasse is his opposite: brutal, explosive, unfaithful, and charismatic. Later, Hasse arrives in Stockholm to visit Niclas, disrupting his brother’s orderly life.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Niclas Bering is a career-minded lawyer. He has been single for a long time and dates online, but he keeps getting dumped. One day, a woman is hired at his workplace, and he becomes infatuated with her. Everything seems to be going well when he suddenly learns that his biological mother, whom he has never been in contact with, has died—and that he has a twin brother. The next day, he travels to Luleå to meet his brother, whom he has not seen since they were ten months old. His brother Hasse is Niclas’s complete opposite: brutal, explosive, unfaithful, and charismatic. One day, Hasse suddenly turns up in Stockholm to visit his new brother, and soon he has turned Niclas’s orderly life upside down. The film was mostly shot in Stockholm in the autumn of 2009.
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