Animation. Metropia

Metropia is a 2009 Swedish animated science-fiction film directed by Tarik Saleh. The screenplay was written by Fredrik Edin, Stig Larsson, and Tarik Saleh after a story by Tarik Saleh, Fredrik Edin and Martin Hultman. The film uses a technique where actual photographs have been altered and heavily stylized in a computer program, and then animated. The visual style is inspired by the works of Terry Gilliam, Roy Andersson and Yuriy Norshteyn.

A futuristic look at a terrifying Europe where the world is running out of oil. A gigantic underground network is created by joining all the various undergrounds together underneath Europe. Roger (Vincent Gallo) from a suburb of Stockholm avoids the underground because he finds it disturbing. Sometimes when he is too near the underground, he hears a strange voice in his head.

One day Roger stumbles upon the truth that his life is controlled in every detail. In order to break free he combines forces with super-model Nina (Juliette Lewis).

CAST:
* Vincent Gallo as Roger
* Juliette Lewis as Nina
* Udo Kier as Ivan Bahn
* Stellan Skarsgård as Ralph Parker
* Alexander Skarsgård as Stefan
* Sofia Helin as Anna
* Shanti Roney as Karl
* Fares Fares as Firaz
* Fredrik Eddari as Mehmet
* Doreen Månsson as asylum TV-hostess
* Indy Neidell as Wayne Marshal
* Joanna Zofia Bard Mikolajczyk as metro voice
* Goran Marjanovic as asylum seeker
* Magnus Skogberg Tear as Roger's boss
* Lotta Bromé as news anchor
* Annelie Persson as Trexx commercial
* Sandy Månsson as office gossip
* Michael Månsson as old man buying ticket
* Jon Wigfield as annoying customer

Official website

Directed by Tarik Saleh
Produced by Kristina Åberg
Written by Screenplay:
Tarik Saleh
Stig Larsson
Fredrik Edin
Story:
Tarik Saleh
Fredrik Edin
Martin Hultman

Music by Krister Linder
Editing by Johan Söderberg
Studio Atmo Media Network
Distributed by Sandrew Metronome
Release date(s) Venice Film Festival:
3 September 2009
Sweden: 27 November 2009
Running time 86 minutes
Country: Sweden Denmark Norway Finland
Language English