Screwed in Tallinn
| Screwed in Tallinn | |
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Swedish DVD cover
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| Also known as | Torsk på Tallinn |
| Written by |
Robert Gustafsson Jonas Inde Andres Lokko Martin Luuk Johan Rheborg Henrik Schyffert |
| Directed by | Tomas Alfredson |
| Starring | Robert Gustafsson Johan Rheborg Jonas Inde |
| Country of origin | Sweden |
| Original language(s) | Swedish |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Iréne Tostar |
| Cinematography | Leif Benjour |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Sveriges Television |
| Distributor | Sveriges Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | SVT1 |
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Screwed in Tallinn (Swedish: Torsk på Tallinn) is a 1999 Swedish comedy-drama film written by and starring the comedy group Killinggänget, and directed by their member Tomas Alfredson. Made in a mockumentary style, it revolves around a group of Swedish single men who travel by bus to Estonia where they have been promised to meet Estonian women.
The film was one of four 60-minute films Killinggänget produced for Sveriges Television in 1999 under the label Fyra små filmer ("Four small films"). It received the Golden Gate Award for best television comedy at the 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Unsuccessful entrepreneur Percy Nilegård organizes a bus trip for lonely Swedish men to Estonia, where Nilegård's Estonian business partner Lembit Metsik has gathered Estonian women interested in meeting Swedish men. The group comprises a mixture of men from different parts of Sweden: Roland Järverup, a timid dansband fan from Karlskoga, the easy-going pick-up artists Micke and Slobodan from Skövde, who has grown tired of the local women, Magnus Ronell, a socially awkward and aggressive perpetual student, Lennart Sundström, an idealistic and argumentative sanitary worker who lives with his elderly mother in Vännäs, and several others. The bus is driven by Lasse Kongo, a severely alcoholic man with unintelligible speech.
Once the group arrive in Paldiski, in the vicinity of Tallinn, a speed-dating system is put into practice, followed by dancing later at night. Awkward and tragicomic situations occur as most of the characters fail to connect with each other and behave properly. Eventually, after various achievements or non-achievements, the men reenter the bus and return to Sweden.
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