During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York...
At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president...
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.
"The story of the little girl and the great love" - about a woman of short stature who is pondering the conditions of life when she meets a man who abandons her and their mutual child.
A film about male friendship that cracks. And a settlement with the 1900s patriarchal genius myth. Håkan Alexandersson (1940-2004) was an artist rebel in 60s.
During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
The bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred is plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.
A film about nature's nature and meaning "cookies" versus "patchwork". This against a serious core: "The anxiety and pressure that the adults live under, with lack of money and unfulfilled dreams lead to behaviors that the children may suffer, but as the children in this movie get an overview and...
VERDICT DB 237 District Court of Piteå - the Murder of a Child
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Carl Johan De Geer reads the 80-page-long sentence. We see pictures from Lake Tjeggelva beach in Arjeplogs municipality. At the scene, four-year-old Michael was murdered on June 28, 1990.
A satirical showdown with the optimism surrounding the atomic war that were expressed in the Swedish national brochure "Om kriget kommer/ If the war comes."
