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The Boy in the Tree

The Boy in the Tree

7,0 /10 (13 Votes)
1961 SV 86 min

Overview

Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.

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Release date

25/09/1961

Votes

13

Popularity

1.2

A summer drama of life and death

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Pojken i trädet

Language

SV

Runtime

86 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-08-16

⭐ 6

"Göte" (Tomas Bolme) is an handsome and gentle young man who is having one of those coming of age crises with his aspirational middle class parents. From little more than boredom, he allies himself with the thuggish "Max" (Heinz Hopf) and his muscle "Manne" (Björn Gustafson) who make a living by poaching the deer from the local estate. The squire (Anders Henrikson) is fed up with this so employs the no-nonsense "Sundberg" (Åke Lindman) to be his gamekeeper and to catch these thieves. "Göte" is also involved, after a fashion, with the maid at the big house but when things start to turn sour bet…

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