Matias Varela

438 Days 2019

On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil affected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa. Exposed to deadly diseases, daily beatings and fierce repression - deprived of their shoelaces and their freedom of speech - they fought to preserve the most valuable thing of all: the freedom to determine who you are and what you believe. This is their story of 438 days of hell.

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Matias Varela, Faysal Ahmed

6.7 IMDB Rating 8,848 Views
Fartblinda 2019–

Economics reporter Bea has promised herself not to mix jobs and private life, but fails to defend herself when she falls in love with the charming bank director Peder. Suddenly she gets a tip that his bank is hiding big problems.

Category: Drama

Stars: Julia Ragnarsson, Matias Varela, Julia Dufvenius

7.1 IMDB Rating 45,186 Views
Snabba Cash – Livet Deluxe 2013

The final part of Stockholm criminal world trilogy tells about the final struggles that await everyone to get out of their sins.

Category: Crime, Thriller

Stars: Matias Varela, Joel Kinnaman, Martin Wallström

6.2 IMDB Rating 15,305 Views
Snabba cash II 2012

Three years later, JW gets out of prison, but soon finds himself between the contending parties of his criminal past.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic

6.2 IMDB Rating 16,015 Views
Snabba cash 2010

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic

6.7 IMDB Rating 21,546 Views