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The New Country

6.5 / 10 6.5 2000 2h 8m

DramaComedy

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

Directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

VISUAL NOTES

Stills from The New Country

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CAST

The people behind the story

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Mike AlmayehuAli

Michalis Koutsogiannakis

Michalis KoutsogiannakisMassoud

Lia Boysen

Lia BoysenLouise

Lars Väringer

Lars VäringerKjell

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Nicholas RiesbeckMackan

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Evert LindkvistThe Old Man

Inga Ålenius

Inga ÅleniusThe Old Lady

Jan Åström

Jan ÅströmBig Bert