Kopps
- Fares Fares: Jacob
- Torkel Petersson: Benny
- Göran Ragnerstam: Lasse
- Sissela Kyle: Agneta
- Eva Roese: Jessica Lindblad
- Christian Fiedler: Folke
Kops is a Swedish film comedy originally from Lebanon Swedish director Josef Fares from the year 2003. Characterizes itself by Swedish humor comedy has won several awards.
Action
The staff of the police station in the ( fictional) Swedish provincial town Högboträsk ( in German media also falsely Högsboträsk ) has a very quiet workday. As is already the capture of a runaway cow the most difficult task. Therefore, the higher authority sends the pretty Jessica inspector into the place, announcing the planned closure of the department. They should be completed already within the next three months. The mood of the village police is at an all time low. "Now must quickly be traded ," they all agree.
The two policemen Jacob and Lasse decide the crime statistics " supplement " to convince Jessica Lindblad assume that the police station in their place has a right to exist. They daub walls with graffiti, donate a city known alcoholics to shoplifting in the mom-and-pop store and leave - albeit inadvertently - leaven the sausage snack in flames. Your colleague Benny and Agneta catch the two in the act, but can be convinced that this strategy is right to save the police station.
However, Jessica is suspicious and wants to go to the incidents in the village to the ground. It provides in investigations and talks with the villagers. The four police officers must always invent new crimes and alleged perpetrator to maintain the threat of force. Finally Benny staged without the knowledge of his colleagues, the kidnapping of his neighbor boy by the drinker already mentioned above. He likes to put the alleged hijackers in a secluded hunting lodge and impress as Jessica. But the unsuspecting head of the police force can be a special task force to march out of the city. The cheating cop on the fly.
Jessica, however, has been closed by their stays in the small town police force into the heart and even started a romance with Jacob. She decides to drop its inquiry report on the incidents under the table. The closure of the station it can not prevent anyway. Jacob has a solution: The " pizza police " gives the troops now on their police car repainted pizzas, especially since the sausage snack is destroyed. At the end of the film Jessica returns one of the refurbished to a pizzeria former police station and ordered a pizza Jacob.
Criticism
" Light comedy without major directorial claims that funny, but rather harmless insights into a small-town world offers and incidentally provides swipes at the same old poses in U.S. police films. "
Awards
- 2003 - Best European Film at the Film Festival Montreal
- 2003 - Jury Prize at the Bermuda International Film Festival
- 2003 - Audience Award at Filmfest Hamburg
- 2003 - nominated for the best foreign film Amanda
- 2005 - Best Picture and Best Actor at the Peniscola Comedy Film Festival