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The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)

The Guitar Mongoloid poster
Original title
Gitarrmongot
Directed by
Ruben Östlund
Genre
drama film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
K15
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This drama follows a group of people who live on the fringes of society in a fictional city modeled on Gothenburg. Many of the people in the film are non-actors playing versions of themselves.

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What happens

The Guitar Mongoloid (Swedish: Gitarrmongot) is a 2004 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ruben Östlund, about different people living outside the norms in the fictional city Jöteborg, strikingly similar to real-life Gothenburg. Although not a documentary, most of the people seen in the film are non-actors more or less playing themselves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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