04/02/2003 - Lukas Moodysson's feature (also the Swedish Oscar candidate) wins five top Guldbagge Awards & The Man Without A Past is best foreign film

Lilja 4-Ever [+see also:
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Michael Nyqvist won the best actor award for his starring role in this year’s best performing domestic production, The Guy in the Grave Next Door, which reported over 830,000 admissions in 2002.
The second most popular Swedish film of 2002: a comedy entitled The Reunion(400,000 admissions) gave Cecilia Frode the opportunity to win a Guldbagge for best supporting actress.
The best supporting actor Guldbagge went to Göran Ragnerstam for Suxxess while Victor And His Brothers by Mårten Klingberg won best short film. Best documentary was The Bricklayer by Stefan Jarl.
Aki Kaurismaki’s The Man Without A Past [+see also:
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