Where is 'Beartown' filmed? The five-episode series on HBO plunges audience into the suffocating global of a secluded small town. Read on for extra.
HBO's five-episode drama series Beartown tells the chilling tale of a fictive small town whose population put all their hope in the native hockey group — best to discover that one player has a darkish secret to hide.
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Touted as a winner in the making, Kevin (Oliver Dufåker) moves miles to impress his extraordinarily demanding new coach, Peter (Ulf Stenberg), and his similarly stern dad, Mats (Tobias Zilliacus) — till he snaps.
Beartown's small town may well be fictitious, but where used to be the HBO series filmed? Keep scrolling for details.
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These are the locations where 'Beartown' was filmed.
With its goosebump-inducing cinematography and crisp long shots depicting the snow-covered Swedish panorama, Beartown could easily be put in parallel with productions like The Valhalla Murders. Both series utilize breathtakingly stunning lengthy shots of the pristine land to put across a crippling sense of doom. Beartown was once filmed in Sweden, whilst The Valhalla Murders was shot in Iceland.
Beartown tells the story of a promising hockey player made up our minds to make it big — only to get too inebriated on energy as soon as he begins to reach luck. In a the most important scene of the series, Kevin attends a house celebration and sexually attacks certainly one of his schoolmates. The incident and the following investigation shake up the entire neighborhood, raising new questions about the immense power placed on a team of adolescent boys.
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According to The Cinemaholic, Beartown used to be filmed in Norrbotten County, the northernmost part of Sweden. Some exterior pictures have been most likely filmed in the Gällivare Municipality in Norrbotten County, and portions of the filming reportedly took place in Malmberget, a mining town. Additional scenes have been likely shot in Övertorneå, a town near the border between Sweden and Finland, in Kiruna, and in the municipalities of Kalix and Haparanda.
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The freezing temperatures posed a downside for the group behind 'Beartown.'
As Peter Grönlund, the director of Beartown revealed in a fresh interview with Drama Quarterly, combating the components was once a long way from easy.
"It was really harsh conditions, and the cameras just stopped working," Peter advised the outlet. "We could be stuck for hours sometimes just waiting for a camera or something to replace some part of the camera that went to hell. That was really hard."
"But still, it's always the same with directing. You lose a lot of energy and you lose faith, but then something happens that gets you going again, like a nice performance or a shot we’re filming, and the energy comes back into you," he added.
Clearing the snow-covered roads used to be some other challenge they needed to face all the way through the months of shooting in the Swedish mountains.
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"I love the frozen world that we portrayed in the first few weeks [of the shoot]. It's so important for the drama, so it was totally worth it. We used hard rigs. It wasn’t just a little camera. There were cranes and dollies and all this big equipment, and we had to create roads or paths through the snow without destroying the shots. It was crazy," Peter instructed Drama Quarterly.
Beartown airs Mondays at 9 p.m on HBO.
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