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Wikipedia article
'Kopps' is a 2003 Swedish action comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 7 February 2003, directed by Josef Fares. The name itself is a pun on pronouncing the English word "Cops" with a Swedish accent.
Plot
The film concerns the police force of a small fictional Swedish village, Hgbotrsk. The village is so peaceful that crime has become nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime. This would mean the loss of income for the policemen, so they begin to stage crimes in order to preserve their jobs. This includes burning down the local hotdog stand, hiring a drunk to steal a packet of sausages, thrashing a local car, faking a shootout and staging a kidnapping using their friends as actors.
Cast
* Fares Fares - Jacob
* Torkel Petersson - Benny
* Gran Ragnerstam - Lasse
* Sissela Kyle - Agneta
* Eva Rse - Jessica Lindblad
*Christian Fiedler - Folke
* Erik Ahrnbom - Hkan
* Harry Goldstein - Gran
* Michael Fares - Mike
* Viktor Friberg - Janne
* Jan Fares - Mike's father
* Yngve Dahlberg - Gunnar
* Kerstin Hellstrm - Kindergarten teacher
American remake
Shortly after Kopps' release in 2003, Adam Sandler and Columbia Pictures bought the rights and announced their plans to remake the comedy into an English-language release,http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-100805218.html though the status is currently unknown.
See also
*'Super Troopers'
*Parable of the broken window
References
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