International Feature Competition

REDOUBT

Värn

Swiss Premiere

John Skoog

Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Finland, United Kingdom, Switzerland

2025, 85'

Genre

DRAMA

Recommended Age

14 years

VO. Swedish

ST. English, French

With

Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Livia Millhagen, Denis Lavant

In presence of

John Skoog and Denis Lavant, Tuesday November 4.

POSTMAN CHEVAL X THE TURIN HORSE

In the midst of the Cold War, a man fortifies his house and alienates his entire village, convinced that the enemy is approaching. A haunting story, inspired by true events.

Set against a backdrop of paranoia, when every Swedish citizen received a pamphlet on how to prepare for war, John Skoog's film brings to life an authentic and unsettling figure from that era, played by a haunting Denis Lavant. A simple farm worker, Karl-Göran Persson began collecting a whole host of unused objects. His goal: to build a veritable impregnable fortress out of odds and ends, convinced that a catastrophe would strike sooner or later. However, this unusual construction began to attract the attention of the other villagers. A haunting work in which the protagonist's urgency sadly echoes the turbulent contemporary climate.

Damien Brodard

Direction

John Skoog

Screenplay

Kettil Kasang, John Skoog

Image

Ita Zbroniec-Zajt

Editing

Jussi Rautaniemi, John Skoog

Music

Amina Hocine

Sound

David Gülich, Anne Gry Friis Kristensen