REDOUBT (2026)
Drama | Language: Swedish | Subtitles: English | 85'
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In UK Cinemas from 27 March
SYNOPSIS
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap-metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect him and his neighbours. His efforts are met with puzzlement by everyone but the children. As the construction progresses, so does a conflict with the people in the village.
PRESS QUOTES
“It’s built with sturdy ambition and a heart of gold, and Lavant is in his absolute element as the agitated, toiling farmhand.”
Lucy Peters - Little White Lies
“Full of extraordinary visual tableaux. For sheer painterly poetry, this is a very rewarding film. Skoog’s use of children’s voice-over clips as an intermittent framing device also lend his engagingly offbeat yarn an extra magical dimension..."
Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict
CAST & CREW
Cast - Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Karl-Göran Persson, Livia Millhagen, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Sol Roach
Director - John Skoog
Writers - John Skoog, Kettil Kasang
Cinematographer - Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
Editor - John Skoog, Jussi Rautaniemi
Producers - Erik Hemmendorff, Caroline Drab, Dan Wechsler, Andreas Roald, Jamal Zeinal-Zade
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR - JOHN SKOOG
John Skoog graduated from the Art Academy in Frankfurt. His films have been shown at numerous film festivals and art museums in Sweden and internationally, such as the Berlin International Film Festival, Moderna Museet and Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, Museum of the Moving Image & PS1 MOMA in New York, IDFA, London Film Festival, True/False, Modern Museum in Wien and the Modern Museum in Frankfurt am Main. His short films have won both Startsladden and 1km film awards, the two main prizes for short films in Sweden, as well as several prizes in the art world and at international film festivals.
His first feature film Säsong (Ridge) won CPH:DOX in 2019. John has been a professor of film at the Art Academy in Mainz since 2016.
