The New Country
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2000-11-24
Runtime: 128 mins
Director: Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
Writer: Peter Birro, Lukas Moodysson
Spoken language: فارسی, svenska
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Original title: The New Country
Production Companies: SVT Drama, Film i Väst, GötaFilm
Production Countries: Sweden
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