MAGNET RELEASING, CRAZY PICTURES in co-production with CO_MADE, I VÄST, VIKSON, TIISCH FILM, SUCCÉFILM, LENNART WIKLUND with funding from SF BIO, SVENSKA BIO & NORRKÖPINGS FILMFOND

Present

A MAGNET RELEASE

THE UNTHINKABLE

A film by CRAZY PICTURES

129 minutes, 2.39, Sweden

FINAL PRESS NOTES

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SYNOPSIS

It’s midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attack, returns to his childhood village to arrange the funeral. There, he must reconcile with both his father and his old flame, Anna, who he has desperately been trying to forget. As old feelings come back to the surface, more mysterious attacks plunge Sweden into chaos and confusion. THE UNTHINKABLE is a disaster-thriller about time running out, and protecting what matters most.

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Crazy Pictures – Biography

Crazy Pictures is a film collective from Sweden, renowned for its acclaimed and spectacular short on YouTube with millions of viewers and screened at film festivals around the world. The group works closely together and stands for all major roles such as director, producer, scriptwriter, director of photography, production design, , , and special effects.

THE UNTHINKABLE is the collective’s first feature film.

The core of Crazy Pictures is 5 friends who have made films together since they were children. In 2008, they founded the company and have since then taken film productions from idea to finished film. The 5 founders share the film’s most crucial and creative roles and often allow responsibility to overlap with each other. Since 2015 they are signed by the Hollywood management 3 Arts .

Crazy Pictures love big challenges and their idea is to make big films in a small way. In Norrkoping they have their own studio and office and within their 4 walls, they do everything from editing, sound design, writing scripts, producing, making VFX to building sets, developing special effects and playing ping pong.

Filmography 2018 The Unthinkable (Den Blomstertid nu kommer), feature film 2015 Like, 2015 The Wasting Battle, short film 2015 See Me, short film 2015 The Unemployed, short film 2015 Happy Ending, short film 2012 Overtime war, short film 2010 Are there any good kids, short film 2010 Dick on fire, short film 2010 Take me, short film 2010 Environment, short film 2010 Generation war, short film 2010 Beggar, short film 2009 Nude Games, short film 2009 You Draw Ugly, short film 2008 Everything is Poetry Baby, short film

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Christoffer Nordenrot Christoffer Nordenrot is a Swedish and scriptwriter. Together with the film collective Crazy Pictures he created one of Sweden’s first truly big viral successes "Poesi för fiskar". He plays the leading role in the feature film "Den blomstertid nu kommer" which he also wrote the script for. Christoffer has starred in several films and TV-series in Sweden, both and . He played one of the main characters, Bill, in the TV-series "Fallet" which won the award for Best Comedy Drama at the C21 Drama Awards in 2017.

Lisa Henni Lisa Henni is a Swedish actress born in Östersund and educated at Mountview Academy of Arts in London. In 2009 she made her debut in the critically acclaimed movie Snabba Cash and has since then appeared in over 20 Swedish films and TV productions (Fallet, Midnattssol, Remake). In 2017 she started her international career with a leading role in the TV series Rig 45 (2018 premiere).

Jesper Barkselius Jesper Barkselius is a Swedish actor educated at the Gothenburg Academy of and has been working at Sweden's largest regional theater, Östgötateatern, since 2002. Jesper has participated in several and film productions such as Jägarna 2 and Höök. In 2018, Jesper is seen in both Filip and Fredriks Tårtgeneralen and Crazy Pictures The Unthinkable. On , he has played leading roles in Romeo and Julia, The Wizard of Oz, The Misanthrope and the musical The Addams Family etc.

Pia Halvorsen Pia Halvorsen is a Swedish/Norwegian actor born 1965 in Norway, grew up outside Oslo. 1986 she moved to Stockholm and is educated at the Kulturama Drama School and Stockholms School of Performing arts 90-94. Since then she has participated in several television, film and theater productions. Such as in the TV-series Real Humans, Valkyrien, Holby City 3 and in the films Stockholm Stories, All Inclusive and Beck – Levande begravd. On stage she has she has done Löst knuten hand (Stockholm City Theater) and Macbeth (Thesbi Theater) etc.

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John Nordling - John Nordling is a and is behind the feature film Let the Right One In from 2008, directed by Tomas Alfredsson. It has so far been sold to 54 countries and been awarded five Gold Scarabs as well as won the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2010 John produced the American re-make titled Let Me In, together with the director Matt Reeves (, ).

Christoffer Nordenrot - Co-scriptwriter Christoffer Nordenrot is a scriptwriter and an actor, educated at the Theater academy in Malmö. He is primarily self-taught in the field of through his work with a number of scripts that has been produced. He has written feature films and short films but also web series, music and commercials in various genres. Together with Crazy Pictures Christoffer wrote the script for the feature film "Den blomstertid nu kommer" which he also plays the leading role in. For the same , Crazy Pictures, he wrote the scripts for "Poesi för fiskar". Sweden's most popular short films and a Youtube phenomenon.

Tormod Ringnes - Sound mixer Tormod Ringnes is an award winning sound designer and sound mixer from Norway with titles such as Kon Tiki (2012), Pirates of The Caribbean – Dead Men Tell No Tails (2017) and Headhunters (2011). He is based in Oslo and is working with his own post-production company Uhørt.

Gustaf Spetz - Gustaf Spetz is a Swedish composer, music producer and artist that has written and recorded all music for ”The Unthinkable”, including the arrangement of the Swedish hymn ”Den blomstertid nu kommer” with artist Frida Sundemo. Gustaf has released 2 albums under his own name and has played together with different Swedish artists. He’s written the music to almost all Crazy Pictures’ earlier films.

Lennart Wiklund - Co-Producer Lennart Wiklund has worked with film production since 1982 and has been involved in over 50 Swedish film productions as well as acquisitions of over 100 films from USA and Europe. He was between 1984-1996 CEO of Sweden’s biggest cinema and production company AB Svensk Filmindustri / SF Bio and was in the board for both of them in 1996-2012. Otherwise, he has been in the board of the Swedish Film Institute, Scanbox and Mediaföretagen.

Emil Wiklund - Executive Producer Emil Wiklund is an advisor/executive producer who has been involved in over thirty film and television projects both in Sweden and internationally. Amongst others he was an executive producer for the critically acclaimed, Grand Jury Prize Winner at and winner of best film at the Swedish Guldbagge awards ”The Nile Hilton Incident” directed by Tarik Saleh.

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CREDITS

Director: Crazy Pictures Producer: Crazy Pictures Executive Producer: John Nordling, Emil Wiklund Script: Crazy Pictures, Christoffer Nordenrot Director of Photography: Crazy Pictures Production Design: Crazy Pictures Casting: Crazy Pictures Costume Design: Crazy Pictures Visual Effects Supervisor: Crazy Pictures Special Effects Supervisor: Crazy Pictures Makeup Designer: Elin Gradin Composer: Gustaf Spetz Sound Design: Crazy Pictures Sound Mixer: Tormod Ringnes Colorist: Ola Bäccman Coordinator: Linnea Landers Still Photography: Samuel Westergren, Wepix

Cast Members: Christoffer Nordenrot Alex Jesper Barkselius Björn Lisa Henni Anna Pia Halvorsen Eva Karin Bertling Grandma Magnus Sundberg Konny Krister Kern Kim Lo Lexfors Elin Alexej Manvelov Military Tholén Yngve Dahlberg Military Emil Linda Kulle Military Pettersson Rikard Svensson Konnys friend Erik Bolin Military in helicopter

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