Hitta hem
Sweden,
1999, 65 min
Shown in 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Tove Torbiörnsson
- prod
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Tove Torbiörnsson
- cam
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Calle Nilsson
- editor
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Bernhard Winkler
- source
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Talatta Film, Blaklocksvagen 22, 18157 Lidingoe, Sweden. FAX: 46-8-767-40-65. EMAIL: alberto@ventana.se
- premiere
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International Premiere
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COMMENTS
Screened with The Vehicle with the Soul of a Man. Tove Torbiörnsson in person.
OTHER
Every day, in a small Indian village, a five-year-old boy takes food to his father who works on the railroad. One day, the boy is compelled to ride a train and hides in a railroad car only to fall asleep. He awakens in a large unfamiliar city, lost and unable to say where he is from. A policeman takes him to an orphanage, never to see his home or family again. Fast forward 27 years—the young man, adopted by Swedish parents and renamed Jonathan, is living a happy, comfortable life but cannot forget his origins. Scattered childhood memories and vague recollections inspire a unique cross-cultural journey and a dogged quest to find one small family in a land of millions, where record keeping is sporadic at best. With the assistance of some unusually optimistic and benevolent police detectives, Jonathan’s pilgrimage to find his family becomes a search for personal identity and wholeness, touched with heartrending emotion and humorous charm.
—Joanne Parsont
FACTOID #361
John Huston, director of classics The Maltese Falcon and The Misfits, was honored with a Festival tribute in 1968. His daughter Anjelica received the Peter J. Owens Award in 1991; The Dead, one of the father-daughter duo’s collaborations, screened at her onstage interview.
