Hooked for Life

May 23, 2011

2h 5m

★ 5.3

Overview

In the summer of 1978 the Swedish film director Staffan Hildebrand encountered a group of young people with skateboards in Stockholm city, it resulted in a documentary about this new subculture "skateboard". The documentary, "14 års landet" (The land of 14) was presented in Swedish national TV (SVT) in the christmas of 1978. Now 30 years later Staffan and his crew have followed up the skateboarders from "14 års landet" what happened to them, what has happened with the skateboard industry in Sweden since then and why these people are "hooked for life".

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Self

Tony Alva

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Allysha Le

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Steve Berra

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Ali Boulala

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Mika Edin

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Andreas Engelkes

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Henrik Grassman

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Lasse Gringo

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David Hackett

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Greger Hagelin

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Tony Hawk

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