![]() Rotterdam Film Festival crowd favourite A Hustler's Diary directed by Croatian-Swedish filmmaker Ivica Zubak features a breakout performance by star/co-writer Can Demirtas as an unlikely hero: a petty criminal of Turkish descent who still lives with his widowed mother Fatma (Selma Caglar) and adoring teenage brother Emre (Toni-Prince Tvrtkovic) in the concrete projects of Jordbro. As Metin (Demirtas) guides us through his exhilarating and trouble-making life in the Stockholm suburbs, he debates both the positive and negative aspects of his 'stuck in a rut' life through his secret journal. When he misplaces the journal and it is discovered by a top publishing house, the agent Puma, a tall and blonde Swede, offers to publish it and turn him into a star. However, Metin frets over the potential consequences for those mentioned in the book, and must choose between his current criminal life or the chance to be something more. Closing the festival with a vividly sketched comedy that touches on the topical issues of national identity and integration, Metin’s volatile world is evoked with affection, sensitivity and hilariously accurate street-smart zap. Can Demirtas stars in and co-wrote the second feature by Croatian-Swedish filmmaker Ivica Zubak. A small-time crook tries to turn a new literary leaf in Ivica Zubak's appealing Swedish comedy-drama A Hustler's Diary ( Maste Gitt), which showcases a breakout turn by star/co-writer Can Demirtas. Watch A Hustler's Diary online full movie hd for free. An film that releases in the Sweden in 2017 directed by Ivica Zubak. Streaming with subtitle without registration. A Hustler's Diary secretly written by a petty criminal and discovered by a top publishing house forces its author to choose between his current criminal life or the chance to be something more. A Hustler's Diary (2017) is a movie was released on 2017-01-06. Starred by: Can Demirtas, Lena Endre, Shebly Niavarani, Madeleine Martin, Mahmut Suvakci, D. A notable audience success when world premiering at Rotterdam, the Stockholm-set crowdpleaser should make a decent impact at Nordic box offices and score plentiful festival play further afield. Born in Yugoslav-era Croatia, director/co-writer Zubak fled his nation's civil war with his family as a pre-teen. His films, including 2009 feature Dreams, tend to focus on the experience of his fellow Swedes of foreign origin or ancestry, such as the unlikely-looking hero of A Hustler's Diary: crop-haired, pudgy-faced, thirtyish Metin (Demirtas), who is of Turkish descent. Still living with his widowed mother Fatma (Selma Caglar) and adoring teenage brother Emre (Toni-Prince Tvrtkovic) in the concrete projects of Jordbro suburb, Metin bumps along with an unremunerative criminal career which he chronicles in a battered notebook. As glimpsed in prolog flashbacks, Metin's late dad impressed upon his young son three criteria for manhood: fathering a child, planting a tree and writing a book. The latter ambition inadvertently edges closer to reality after Metin's journal reaches the hands of Puma (Jorgen Thorsson), editor at a respectable literary publishing company. Worrywart Metin frets over the potential consequences for his gangland cohorts if their exploits attract the attention of the authorities because of his tell-all tome. Puma and company, meanwhile, become convinced that they've stumbled across an accidental star author from the wrong side of the tracks. As classes and cultures clash, Metin's two-fisted temper lands him in increasingly hot water. Zubak and Demirtas score by ensuring that Metin is an engaging, sympathetic and amusing lead despite his macho-traditional views (he's outraged when learning that his middle-aged mom has a new beau) and occasional violent outburst. Perhaps drawing inspiration from the startling rise of Palestinian-Danish poet Yahya Hassan, which made headlines across Scandinavia and beyond a few years back, their story takes its place in a respectable cinematic sub-genre of crooks-turned-authors that includes John Flynn's Best Seller (1987) and Andrew Dominik's Chopper (2000). The vividly sketched 'immigrant' milieu, however, recalls recent Middle Eastern-flavored Scandi notables like Josef Fares' Jalla! (2000), Omar Shargawi's Go With Peace, Jamil (2008) and Fenar Ahmad's Flow (2014). ![]() Pan-European debates about immigration, national identity and integration are, meanwhile, currently more prominent in the cultural discourse than ever. This endows A Hustler's Diary with a certain topical tang, though Zubak and Demirtas are chiefly concerned with etching a lively three-dimensional character-study against a convincing, detailed social background. With slangy, authentic-sounding, slang-spiced dialogue (the original title is argot roughly meaning 'gotta split') and an engagingly varied gallery of characters, A Hustler's Diary is shot in a wintry, slightly bleached-out palette by cinematographer Erik Vallsten. Making a quietly auspicious fiction-feature debut after a full decade of documentaries, Vallsten goes the hand-held widescreen route to evoke Metin's volatile world with intimacy, sensitivity, and plenty of street-smart zap. Production company: Indian Summer Cast: Can Demirtas, Lena Endre, Jorgen Thorsson, Selma Caglar, David Nzinga, Shebly Niavarani, Toni-Prince Tvrtkovic Director: Ivica Zubak Screenwriters: Can Demirtas, Ivica Zubak Producer: Abbe Hassan Cinematographer: Erik Vallsten Production designer: Kajsa Alman Costume designer: Mimmi Maenpaa Editor: Rickard Krantz Composer: Filip Runesson Casting director: Pauline Hansson Venue: International Film Festival Rotterdam Sales: TriArt Film, Stockholm, Sweden ([email protected]) In Swedish with some Turkish 98 minutes. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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