Synopsis
Behind the scenes of six of the greatest Swedish cultural upsets of our time. When the media storm blows hardest, it can be difficult to see what the core of the discussion really is and why the event has become so infected.
Episodes
Season 11E1Okänd kvinna 2009-349701Anna Odell recreates a psychosis she suffered several years earlier. When she reveals that she has bluffed herself into the psychiatric ward an animated debate rises.30m2E2Makode Linde/RastårtanA cake party at the Modern Museum in Stockholm became a major international cultural event when Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut a piece of cake from a black marzipan women's body.30m3E3Den högsta kastenSwedish author Carina Rydberg named in her novel" The Highest Caste" (1997) several people in Stockholm's nightlife in a furious deal with the hierarchical vie nocturne in general and a lover she felt offended in particular.30m4
Horkarlsmyntet"The Fornicator Coin" - During the summer of 2012, coins began to appear in Sweden embossed with the text "Our fornicator to king". About the same time, a book of outrage to provoke a scandal about the king, was published.30m5
Docklands/FrihetsfrontenIn the fall of 1995, Docklands opened its doors in a shipyard outside Stockholm. The rave club is the offshoot of the libertarian group Frihetsfronten/Freedom Front and will become notorious as a hedonistic drug nest.30m6
RondellhundenThe artist Lars Vilks replicates the debate of the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten's publication of the Muhammad cartoons by making a series of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad as a traffic-roundabout-dog.30m
Horkarlsmyntet"The Fornicator Coin" - During the summer of 2012, coins began to appear in Sweden embossed with the text "Our fornicator to king". About the same time, a book of outrage to provoke a scandal about the king, was published.30m5Docklands/FrihetsfrontenIn the fall of 1995, Docklands opened its doors in a shipyard outside Stockholm. The rave club is the offshoot of the libertarian group Frihetsfronten/Freedom Front and will become notorious as a hedonistic drug nest.30m6RondellhundenThe artist Lars Vilks replicates the debate of the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten's publication of the Muhammad cartoons by making a series of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad as a traffic-roundabout-dog.30mReviews & discussion
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