Tjorven och Skrållan

I took this deligthful little movie from the library a few days ago. I had not seen it in many years, but watching it made so many colorful childhood memories come up that I couldn´t stop smiling. This film truly is a children´s movie in its best! It is based on an Astrid Lindgrens book and it tells about an island called Saltkråkan, the people and expecially the kids who live there. The characters are lovable and true, stories and circumtanses sweet and realistic and the acting is wonderful from all the children and expecially Torsten Lilliecrona who plays Melkerson. Also, they couldn´t have found a more happy and well to handle cutie than 21 months old Kajsa Dandenell to play little Skrållan.

If you have the chance and you would like to spend a warm and laugh sure video evening with your children, get Tjorven och Skrållan in you hands.

Overall, this is a story for children but anyone who enjoys innocent and cute childlike tales can watch this, no matter the age. Even for those who have absolutely no childhood connection at all to this little film, it can bring bright childhood memories, as it deals with a type of childhood that doesn't exist anymore.

This story takes place in a small community, apparently an island, in a rural area next to the water. The children are great in their actings, especially the little girl who plays Skrållan. Skrållan is so utterly cute and adorable, truly a sweetie yet simultaneously a minor troublemaker. She looks like an angel yet she does a lot of mischief. She is practically a baby and naturally she doesn't have conscience of the things she does. She does it innocently and without any harm. In her childish world, what she does is fun. It's impossible not to smile with her innocent mischief.

Like most Swedish films I saw so far, this one is very nicely filmed, with lovely cinematography, good actors and a harmless plot, but still it lacks something.