About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant.
The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and international artists on stage, as well as some clips from speeches, riots, civil wars, and the people at the song contest itself.
Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the upper class. Eric regards his studies as a way of getting somewhere, while Clarence is only interested in the drawing lessons. There are only a few...
Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather who manages to confuse a couple of letters resulting in a mess of things.
1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the KDS is formed and the long-haired fashion starts trending - for guys.
Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle...
In the dark forests of Småland there is a pond called Judagölen [The Jew Pond], named after the murder of a Jewish salesman by a farm-worker in the 1870's. Staffan Lamm retells the story through the people that still remembers. A story about memory, the power of evil and justice.
About a group of "Rockers" who belong to a British motorcycle club. Included are interviews with both male and female bikers. The film is largely based on candid interviews where the bikers respond to questions about politics, society, freedom and independence.
"King of Saboteurs" - Ernst Wollweber, German communist, active in Sweden during the Second World War, eventually Stasi commander in the GDR, finally purged and forgotten. Ernst Friedrich Wollweber (1898 - 1967) was State Secretary of State Security from 1953 to 1955 and Minister of State Security...
A documentary film about the 99 year old artist Anna Casparsson. She is interviewed by Peter Weiss in her home in Saltsjöbaden. “I shot 'Anna Casparsson' together with Staffan Lamm. I had wanted to complete the film, but somehow I did not get around to it and then she died shortly afterwards.”...
Six episodes about people who all live on the fringes of society. Documentary filmmaker Staffan Lamm pauses before some events in his life. He talks about his family with his schizophrenic uncle as a common thread. The maternal uncle's illness has haunted and worried Staffan over the years, and he...
In June 1931, my grandfather all of a sudden starts photographing everything around him in the Båstad area. Just as suddenly he then stops, around the time his son Göran is sent away.
Sara had been in a concentration camp. Ema was a Jewish girl who married Swedish artist Anders Zorn. Ruben suffered from megalomania and was a patient in a mental hospital.
