Sökarna
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Sökarna is a 1993 Swedish action/gangster movie.
[edit] Cast
- Liam Norberg - Jocke Vanås
- Ray Jones IV - Ray Lopez
- Thorsten Flinck - Kola-Tony
- Jonas Karlsson - Gurra
- Musse Hasselvall - Andy
The movie is about three friends growing up in Stockholm, Sweden in the early 1990s. The youths are rebellious with a passion for money and crime. They dream about having money and living the life of superstars. To achieve this flamboyant lifestyle they commit certain misdemeanors, property crimes, and various violent crimes; especially against skin-heads, a Nazi/racist group whose movement had renaissance in Sweden in the early 1990s.
After participating in a raid of a clothing warehouse, Joakim Vanas (played by Liam Norberg) gets arrested and sentenced to a few years in a Swedish penitentiary. While in Jail, Joakim gets exposed to inmate brutality, and associates with the heavily criminal Tony, who introduces Joakim (also called Jocke, or Jocke-pojken) to cocaine.
Shortly after being released from Jail Joakim and Tony team up with Joakim's old friends and begin to commit more violent crimes: bank robberies, and drug distribution. The friends quickly become rich, and spend thousands of dollars on Versace clothes, champagne, drugs, and women.
A few years, many women, and plenty of free-base pipes later, their lavish lifestyle begins to take its toll. The friends become dependent on cocaine and heroin. They also begin to distrust each other, and subsequent to an argument about the division of profit from a drug trade, Tony kidnaps Joakim's long time girlfriend; Helen. As Joakim becomes aware of the kidnapping, he begins searching for Tony.
The movie ends in a deadly confrontation, between Tony and Joakim. Joakim survives the confrontation with Tony, but a few minutes later Joakim dies in an attempt to escape the police.
The Sokarna has become somewhat of a cult-classic in Sweden, the movie was widely watched by Swedish teenagers in the mid-1990s. Still today, there are rebellious youths who idolize the lifestyle depicted in the movie.
