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Månsson's retired private eye sees a Bright Future at the IFFR

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- Nominated for a Swedish film prize as cinematographer, Swedish director Måns Månsson goes to Rotterdam with his first feature, while preparing his second

Swedish director Måns Månsson’s first feature, Roland Hassel, which Scanbox Entertainment released domestically on November 23, 2012, has been selected for the Bright Future section at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, which runs between January 23-February 3.

Also a cinematographer, Månsson shot both his follow-up on his 2008 documentary, Mr Governor, and fellow director Axel Petersén’s drama-thiller Avalon [+see also:
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(2012), for which he has been nominated for a Guldbagge – Sweden’s national film prize – as Best Cinematographer. The awards are presented at a televised gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus tonight (January 21).

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For his comedy-thriller screening in Rotterdam, Månsson has revived Olov Svedelid’s detective character from the 1980s who was last active on the screen in 2000. His own script follows the now retired PE, still played by Lars-Erik Berenett, who returns to investigate the 1986 unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, strongly motivated by the $10 million reward for information leading to the murderer. Charlotte Most produced the film for Anagram Produktion.

Meanwhile Månsson and his wife Sara Nemeth have started writing the screenplay for his next feature from Yarden, an autobiographical novel by Swedish award-winning author Kristian Lundberg, also to be packaged by Anagram Produktion. In his story Lundberg cannot make a living from being a writer, so he takes a job as a day labourer in the port of Malmö, where he meets a reality which few would expect to find in today’s Sweden. Shooting is scheduled for next year.

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