Popular Music
It is the mid-60s and Rock n’ Roll is about to set the world alight. For Matti and Niila, growing up in Vittula - a tiny, desolate village high on the Swedish Finnish border - everything is about to change.
With the encouragement of a trendy young music teacher from swinging, sophisticated south, the boys decide to form a pop band and escape Vittula forever, but for one of them liberation comes at a high price.
An intimate satire of dead-end village life, “Popular Music” is a dark but exuberant rites-of-passage movie celebrating the power of music to transform, illuminate and finally even burn, everyone and everything it touches.
An intimate satire of dead-end village life, “Popular Music” is a dark but exuberant rites-of-passage movie celebrating the power of music to transform, illuminate and finally even burn, everyone and everything it touches.
Production Facts
- Original Title: Populärmusik från Vittula
- Country of Origin: Sweden
- Production Year: 2003
- Language: Swedish
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Reza Bagher
- Producer: Joachim Stridsberg
- Cast: Björn Kjellman, Max Enderfors, Niklas Ulfarsson,Tommy Vallikari, Andreas af Eneheim, Jarmo Mäkinen
- Script: Reza Bagher, Eric Norberg
- Art Director: Lasse Westfelt