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My Life as a Dog
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Cast
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Tomas von Brömssen | ... |
morbror Gunnar
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Anki Lidén | ... |
Ingemars mamma
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Kicki Rundgren | ... |
moster Ulla
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Lennart Hjulström | ... |
konstnären
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Ing-Marie Carlsson | ... |
Berit
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Leif Ericson | ... |
farbror Sandberg
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Christina Carlwind | ... |
Fru sandberg
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Ralph Carlsson | ... |
Harry
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Viveca Dahlén | ... |
tvättande kvinna
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Arnold Alfredsson | ... |
Mannes farfar
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Fritz Elofsson | ... |
Mäster
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Didrik Gustafsson | ... |
Arvidsson, dying old man befriended by Ingmar
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Manne, the boy with green hair
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Ingemar lives with his brother and his terminally ill mother. He may have a rough time, but not as bad as Laika - the russian dog sent into space... He gets sent away to stay with relations for the summer. While there, he meets various strange characters, giving him experiences that will affect him for the rest of his life. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
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Det kunde ha varit värre. Jag har faktiskt haft tur. Om man jämför...Parents Guide:
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Country:
SwedenLanguage:
SwedishRelease Date:
24 March 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
My Life as a Dog See more »Box Office
Gross:
$8,345,266 (USA)Company Credits
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Color (Fujicolor)Aspect Ratio:
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Ingemar: I should have told her everything. Mom loved stories like that. It's not so bad if you think about it. It could have been worse. Just think how that poor guy who got a new kidney in Boston ended up. He got his name in all the papers, but he died just the same. And what about Laika, the space dog? They put her in the Sputnik and sent her into space. They attached wires to her heart and brain to see how she felt. I don't think she felt too good. She spun around up there for five ...
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(original song title "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts")
Written by Fred Heatherton (joint pseudonym of Elton Box, Desmond Cox and Irwin Dash)
Lyrics by Povel Ramel
Performed by Povel Ramel
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Modern cars are visible during the car journey from the hospital. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ingemar: I should have told her everything. Mom loved stories like that. It's not so bad if you think about it. It could have been worse. Just think how that poor guy who got a new kidney in Boston ended up. He got his name in all the papers, but he died just the same. And what about Laika, the space dog? They put her in the Sputnik and sent her into space. They attached wires to her heart and brain to see how she felt. I don't think she felt too good. She spun around up there for five ...
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Far, jag kan inte få upp min kokosnöt(original song title "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts")
Written by Fred Heatherton (joint pseudonym of Elton Box, Desmond Cox and Irwin Dash)
Lyrics by Povel Ramel
Performed by Povel Ramel
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I'm not a great lover of subtitled films. The highest credit I can give this, is that within 5 minutes, I'd forgotten that they were even there. You cannot take your eyes of this movie. Beautifully filmed with characters who are so real that at times, you feel like you're intruding. I felt so desperately sad for this young lad who nobody seemed to want. He was clearly deeply affected by his mothers illness and was in desperate need of some kind of counselling. Instead, he was sent to live with a relative in a small town. The people there all seemed wrapped up in their little Worlds To an outsider, they all seemed a bit dysfunctional. Sex rears it head at seemingly every turn. Whether it was the dying man wanting his underwear catalogue read to him, the factory worker admiring his co-workers 'melons', the growth of teenage breasts, the artist sculpting the deeply inappropriate image of a woman and her newborn baby...Well, everyone was at it. Does everyone really think and act like this?..Well, probably more than most people think. I really didn't want this movie to end and actually felt at the conclusion, that I would miss seeing the characters. Don't be put off by the subtitles, you won't notice them!