However, when a man on the platform faints and falls onto the tracks, Ove jumps down and rescues him. Later, Ove goes to the train station, planning to jump in front of a train. Ove takes care of Parvaneh and Patrick's two daughters, Sepideh and Nasanin, and is made to sit outside after he causes a scene. Ove's attempt to kill himself is interrupted by Parvaneh banging on the garage door, wanting a lift to the hospital because her husband has had an accident. She encourages him to return to school, and he earns a degree in engineering. After three weeks, he finds her again, and they begin dating. He is smitten with her and returns to the same early train each morning. With nowhere to go, Ove sleeps on a train at work he wakes to find a young woman, Sonja, sitting across from him. His neighbor's home catches fire one night, and Ove saves two people, but sparks from the fire cause his own home to burn, and The Whiteshirts prevent the fire from being tackled because they plan to demolish it in any case. Two men from the local council, whom Ove dubs "The Whiteshirts," arrive at young Ove's home and declare it should be demolished. In the present, during another attempt to kill himself, this time by carbon monoxide poisoning, Ove is sitting in his running car and again recollects the past when he began working at the train company. Having done particularly well at his exams, he reports his results to his father, who is so anxious to spread the news that he fails to take proper care and is hit by a train and killed.
His father shared his knowledge of engines with Ove, who had a part-time job at the train yard. His mother died when he was a child, leaving him alone with his quiet father, a mechanic at the train company. His attempts to hang himself are repeatedly interrupted by Iranian immigrant Parvaneh, her Swedish husband Patrick, and their two children, who are moving into the house across the street.ĭuring another suicide attempt, Ove flashes back to his childhood. Having worked at the same company for 43 years, he is pushed into retiring.
Ove is depressed after his wife, Sonja, a schoolteacher, died from cancer six months previously. Rune is now paralysed after having a stroke and being cared for by his wife, Anita. Ove Lindahl, a 59-year-old widower, lives in a townhouse neighborhood where he was the chairman of the neighborhood association until Rune, his former friend, replaced him.
At the 89th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. It was nominated for six awards, winning two, at the 51st Guldbagge Awards in 2016. The film was theatrically released in Sweden on 25 December 2015. It stars Rolf Lassgård in the title role. A Man Called Ove ( Swedish: En man som heter Ove, pronounced ) is a 2015 Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Hannes Holm and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman.
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