Olof Palme

Acting

Olof Palme

Born 1927-01-30 · Stockholm, Sweden

Olof Palme was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and statesman. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden.

Acting credits

Barn av vår tid poster
10.0

Nacksving (1975-1981) - the influential and short-lived cooperative record company in Gothenburg, Sweden. The comprehensive and powerful multi-cultural socialistic music theatre project, Tältprojektet (1977). And the ANC Gala at the Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg 1985. It is also a film about ideals, the left wing movement and political changes in Sweden during the 70's and the 80's. Following Nacksving's bankruptcy, the subsidiary record company Transmission and Nacksving Recording Studio continued.

Barn av vår tid

2017

Ebbe - The Movie: Mannen, Myten, Affären poster
7.8

A documentary dealing with the publisher Ebbe Carlsson's decision to start his own investigation on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme

Ebbe - The Movie: Mannen, Myten, Affären

2009

Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria poster
7.3

Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.

Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria

2019

Badjävlar poster
6.8

Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.

Badjävlar

1971

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6.8

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

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1998

Kårhusockupationen poster
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"The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.

Kårhusockupationen

1968

Lisbet poster
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About Lisbet Palme - the wife of Olof Palme - Prime Minister of Sweden - till the night of his murder Feb 28, 1986. Lisbet Palme is a prominent child psychologist. Her social commitment specially regarding women and children are widely known.

Lisbet

2011

Sven-Bertil poster
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Interpreter, actor and entertainer. Sven-Bertil Taubes' career spans almost a lifetime. As the son of two legendary artists, he had a lot to live up to. This is the story of Sven-Bertil Taubes' life, told in his own words. It will be a journey through nine decades.

Sven-Bertil

2016

Dance Around the Guldbaggen poster
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Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

1964

Palmemördaren poster
1.0

On June 10, 2020, the 34-year-old Palme Inquiry was closed down because the investigators could not "get around" Skandiaman, Stig Engström. Here, the prosecutor's accusations and allegations about Stig Engström are examined.

Palmemördaren

2021

Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifrån poster
7.7

"The Norrmalmstorgs drama from the inside" - For more than 30 years, the bank-robber Janne Olsson refused to talk about the noted bank-robbery at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, in 1973. This is the first interview with Olsson.

Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifrån

2003

A Heart Is Always Red poster
6.0

Born from the ashes of the iconic punk band Ebba Grön, this documentary tells the story of Imperiet and their journey to become the leading star of the post-punk generation and one of Sweden's biggest rock bands. It's also the story of Sweden, at a time in which they took their firm position on the world stage and when political commitment from the artists was a necessity.

A Heart Is Always Red

2024

Who Killed Olof Palme? poster
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About the murder of Olof Palme Feb. 28, 1986. Palme was a strong willed and maverick Swedish prime minister. He was idealistic in the extreme in that he believed he could defeat evil forces in the world by the power of his moral stance and the strength of his convictions. New and old suspects and theories surface in this film. Plus a fairly new informer, Ivan von Birchan.

Who Killed Olof Palme?

2017

Veckans brott: Palmemordet och Christer Pettersson poster
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Marks the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Leif GW Persson discusses the lead that has dominated the investigation more than any other: Christer Pettersson. Leif has also received a tip regarding new bullets, and this time he decides to conduct his own investigation.

Veckans brott: Palmemordet och Christer Pettersson

2016

Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc. poster
6.0

Clock looks, smells and tastes just like any other fast food chain. Its owner? The Swedish state.

Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.

2025

Bordellhärvan poster
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"The Brothel Scandal" - In 1977, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (Daily News) published an article naming Sweden's former Attorney General Lennart Geijer as a threat to the security of Sweden. A shady story about teenage prostitution, concealing intimate sexual matters and political power takes off.

Bordellhärvan

2013

I Am Curious (Yellow) poster
5.7

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

I Am Curious (Yellow)

1967

Palme poster
7.6

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.

Palme

2012

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A collage of voices and film clips with Olof Palme that illuminates a number of central themes in his ideological thinking. In the film, close friends and colleagues talk about Olof Palme and comment on his political vision.

Willingness to Move On: Olof Palme and His World of Ideas

1996

Peter Bratt - En undersökare poster
7.0

"Makten och sanningen" - depicts the Geijer-affair or the Brothel-affair in 1977 where journalist Peter Bratt was forced to publish an apology in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter even though it turned out that everything he had previously written in the case was true. The Swedish Minister of Justice Lennart Geijer was accused of using under age escort girls provided by the Madam Doris Hopp in Stockholm. Geijer denied the charges..

Peter Bratt - En undersökare

2007

The Last Contract poster
5.8

Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

The Last Contract

1998

Palme - sista timmarna poster
1.0

A film about the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

Palme - sista timmarna

2016

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8.0

A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes.

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

2003

Murder in Stockholm poster
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On February 28, 1986, Palme was killed by a shot to the back, at very close range. His wife, Lisbet, was wounded by a second shot. There were several witnesses to the assassination, but none of them got a good look at the gunman.

Murder in Stockholm

2001