Skavabölen pojat

Skavabölen pojat (Finnish for "the boys from Skavaböle/Hyrylä") is a 2009 Finnish drama film. It was directed by Zaida Bergroth and based on a play by the same name, written by Antti Raivio in 1991 and performed at Q-teatteri in the 1990s.^[1] Skavabölen pojat is a story about two brothers, growing from children to adults, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, in Grankulla/Kauniainen and Skavaböle/Hyrylä in the Greater Helsinki Area.^[2]

Skavabölen pojat
Directed by	Zaida Bergroth
Written by	Jan Forsström
Produced by	Nicole Gerhards, Jarkko Hentula, Hanneke M. van der Tas
Starring	Lauri Tilkanen, Iiro Panula, Ilmari Järvenpää, Onni Tommila, Leea Klemola, Martti Suosalo
Edited by	Niels Pagh Andersen
Music by	Alexander Hacke
Production company	Juonifilmi Oy
Release date	4 September 2009 (2009-09-04)
Running time	2 h 6 m
Country	Finland
Language	Finnish

The film was awarded the Flash Forward prize at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.^[3]

Plot

The film varies between the "present" in the early 1980s, and the brothers' childhood in the early 1970s.

Cast

• Ilmari Järvenpää as Rupert Kallio
• Onni Tommila as Evert
• Lauri Tilkanen
• Iiro Panula
• Leea Klemola (mother)
• Martti Suosalo (father)
• Elina Knihtilä
• Tommi Korpela
• Sulevi Peltola
• Henriikka Salo
• Eila Roine

Reception

In the film review column in the Helsingin Sanomat weekly supplement Nyt, four critics gave the film an average score of 3.3 out of 5.^[4]