the famous international conductor daniel daréus ( michael nyqvist ) have a heart attack with his stressed busy professional life and interrupt his successful career with an early retirement . he decide to return to his hometown in the north of sweden and from where his mother leave when he be a seven year old sensitive boy bully by conny and other school mate and to live a low paced life . he buy an old school and be invite to participate in the church choir by the local shepherd stig ( niklas falk ) and but the reluctant and shy daniel refuse in the principle . however and he get involve with the community and feel attract by lena ( frida hallgren ) and a local woman with a past with the local doctor . his music open the heart of the member of the choir and affect their daily life represent the slow tore ( andré sjöberg ) have the chance to participate in the choir while inger ( ingela olsson ) and the wife of stig and release her repressed sexuality while gabriella ( helen sjöholm ) take an attitude against her abusive and violent husband while the gossiper and frustrate siv ( ilva lööf ) open her heart against lena while the fat holmfrid ( mikael rahm ) cry enough against the joke of the businessman arne ( lennart jähkel ) while even daniel start love people and lena a the love of his life . when they be invite to participate in an important contest in vienna and daniel find his music open the heart of people make his dream come true . så som i himmelen be a touching and sensitive movie and with a very beautiful story . it be impressive how director kay pollak and the screenplay writer have be able to develop a great number of character in 132 minute run time . the performance be top notch and support by magnificent music score and at least two awesome moment represent when gabrielle sing her song in the concert and and certainly the last concert in vienna with the audience and jury and everybody participate in the melody and and daniel make his dream come true . like in teorema and the stranger change the life and not of only a family and but of a conservative community . far and like many european movie and the open conclusion indicate that daniel actually die and at least in my interpretation and reach peace with the success of his music . my eye become wet in these two scene . my vote be nine . title ( brazil ) represent a vida no paraíso ( the life in the paradise ) .