Sigvard Hammar

"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.

Shows what happens on a completely ordinary day in the year 2000 in Kronoberg. We enter the plot in the middle of a local news broadcast about a flood disaster. There is practically an emergency situation in the area.

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.

An interview with film director Ingmar Bergman, conducted by journalist Sigvard Hammar, originally broadcast on Swedish television.