The Last Proletarians of Football [SEP] country of origin
football film festival), New York City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Bilbao.
Reception and awards.
"The Last Proletarians of Football" was praised in Sweden as well as abroad, and received favorable reviews in all the major Swedish newspapers. The main criticism the film received was that it tried to force the connection between politics and football too hard, but the connection has also been pointed out as one of the strengths of the film.
The film won the "Paladino d'oro", the
The Last Proletarians of Football
The Last Proletarians of Football () is a 2011 Swedish documentary film about the football club IFK Göteborg and its success during the 1980s, but also about the development of Swedish society.
The documentary is written and directed by Martin Jönsson and Carl Pontus Hjorthén, with music by Ian Person, guitarist of former Swedish rock band The Soundtrack of Our Lives. Producer Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm has also been a member of the band.
The title of the film alludes to how the players of IFK