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Fyra Nyanser Av Brunt

Four Shades of Brown
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Produced by Caisa Westling
Written by Tomas Alfredson
Robert Gustafsson
Jonas Inde
Andres Lokko
Martin Luuk
Johan Rheborg
Henrik Schyffert
Starring Robert Gustafsson
Johan Rheborg
Henrik Schyffert
Jonas Inde
Maria Kulle
Ulf Brunnberg
Cinematography Leif Benjour
Edited by Louise Brattberg
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Distributed by AB Svensk Filmindustri
Release date
Running time
192 minutes
Country Sweden
Language Swedish

Four Shades of Brown (Swedish: Fyra nyanser av brunt) is a 2004 Swedish film written by the comedy group Killinggänget and directed by their member Tomas Alfredson. The film stars Robert Gustafsson, Johan Rheborg, Henrik Schyffert, Jonas Inde, Maria Kulle and Ulf Brunnberg. The film consists four interweaved stories about life tragedies, with settlements related to fatherhood as the common theme. It was produced by Sveriges Television.

The film won four Guldbagge Awards including Best Director and Best Actor for Gustafsson. In 2005 it was aired on television as four mid-length television films, which had been reedited with additional footage.

In the film version, the stories are presented interweaved, although story-wise completely unconnected. In the television version, each story constitutes one episode and works as an independent television film, varying in length between 40 and 60 minutes.

Christer Landin, the father in a family living in a community in Scania, southern Sweden, tries to motivate his son who is falling behind in school by bringing him to his workplace as a pet cremator. Accidentally, the son turns on the crematory oven just in the wrong moment and the father is severely burned. Life still has to go on, and while the son is feeling guilty, the father goes through rehabilitation where he learns to speak again and befriends other local people also suffering from speech disabilities.

Richard Brunn, a man with a lifetime subscription to the magazine Wallpaper*, is together with his wife opening a top designed beachside hotel. They are visited by Richard's parents who work as stage magicians. The parents bring an easy-going Dane and a wooden statuette representing a former minister, which Richard finds to be extremely tasteless, and which triggers a mental breakdown.


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