Egghead Republic
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| Based on | The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt |
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| Cinematography | Malin Gutke |
| Edited by | Oskar Blondell |
| Music by | Juhana Lehtiniemi |
| Animation by | Arild Andersson |
Production company | YouSavedMe |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
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Egghead Republic is a 2025 Swedish science fiction film directed and written by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja. Inspired in part by Kågerman's tenure at Vice Magazine and the novel The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt, the film is set in an alternate reality in which the Cold War persists and a nuclear bomb has struck in Soviet Kazakhstan.
The film was selected in the Discovery section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and had its World premiere on 6 September 2025.