The Andersson Brothers

Brothers Leif, Ronny, Roy, and Kjell haven’t seen each other in ten years. There was no great conflict, they simply drifted apart. Their lives took very different paths – Roy Andersson is a world-renowned filmmaker, Kjell makes historical documentaries, Leif was a political activist and athlete. Ronny wrestled all his life with alcohol and drug abuse and died in a homeless shelter. Leif’s daughter Johanna, the mother of three children, wants to bring the surviving siblings together and make a film about them. But it is harder than she thought. The film’s interviews, documentary footage, and archive material gives equal time to each of the brothers, the famous and the less so. It covers their childhood in a working-class Gothenburg family, their youth, and the way they deal with illness and alcoholism, which have touched all of them. Her film is a very personal portrait of a family, but also a reflection on art, alienation, and what is really important in the end.