| Skavabölen pojat | |
| Director: | Zaida Bergroth |
| Producer: | Nicole Gerhards, Jarkko Hentula, Hanneke M. van der Tas |
| Starring: | Lauri Tilkanen, Iiro Panula, Ilmari Järvenpää, Onni Tommila, Leea Klemola, Martti Suosalo |
| Music: | Alexander Hacke |
| Editing: | Niels Pagh Andersen |
| Studio: | Juonifilmi Oy |
| Runtime: | 2 h 6 m |
| Country: | Finland |
| Language: | Finnish |
Skavabölen pojat (Finnish for "the boys from Skavaböle/Hyrylä") is a 2009 Finnish drama film. It was directed by Zaida Bergroth and based on a play by the same name, written by Antti Raivio in 1991 and performed at Q-teatteri in the 1990s.[1] Skavabölen pojat is a story about two brothers, growing from children to adults, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, in Grankulla/Kauniainen and Skavaböle/Hyrylä in the Greater Helsinki Area.[2]
The film was awarded the Flash Forward prize at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.[3]
The film varies between the "present" in the early 1980s, and the brothers' childhood in the early 1970s.
In the film review column in the Helsingin Sanomat weekly supplement Nyt, four critics gave the film an average score of 3.3 out of 5.[4]