The charming little boy Tsatsiki from Moni Nilsson’s best-selling book is coming back to the silver screens with the film Tsatsiki, farsan och Olivkriget (working title Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War) directed by Lisa James Larsson (pictured - Ego).
The author herself has written the script for this standalone film that comes 16 years after the first film adaptation and box office success Tsatsiki, Mom and the Policeman, Best Film Guldbagge winner in 1999. The second film in the series Tsatsiki Friends Forever came out in 2001.
In these new adventures, the 11 year-old Swedish boy Emrik Ekholm) goes back on holiday to visit his father Yanis in Greece, but things there are not quite the way he remembers, and the little hotel run by his family is badly hit by the financial crisis. With his best friend, 12 year-old Alva , Tsatsiki sets on a mission to save the hotel. The family film started filming yesterday in Crete. Susann Billberg and Lotta Westberg are producing for Jarowskij, in collaboration with Nordisk Film, TV4, Nordsvenk Film, Zingo Film, Prosperus AB and Spellbound and support from the Swedish Film Institute and Creative Europe.