Jan-Henrik Barrling

A film about the murder of Olof Palme. The clock starts when the killer fires the first fatal shot. Second by second, the testimonies are placed and the witnesses tell what they saw. A new, surprising scenario of what has reasonably happened emerges.

In the 1980s, Säpo agent Jan-Henrik Barrling investigated the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. He was dismissed from Säpo after becoming embroiled in a political scandal linked to Sweden’s Minister of Justice—the so-called Ebbe Carlsson affair. He was also accused of going behind the prosecutors' backs. For all these years, Jan-Henrik Barrling has been bound by a duty of confidentiality. Now, for the first time, he speaks about his work on the Palme murder case and about the wiretapping of a Soviet diplomat and spy—a recording that remains classified to this day.