Håkan Pieniowski

"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..

The horrors of the Holocaust and the loss of both mother and father has given Hédi Fried (1924-2022) a worry that cannot be calmed. She harbors hope for the future and a strong and stubborn belief that something like this will never happen again. Hédi Fried was a Swedish-Romanian author and psychologist. A Holocaust survivor, she passed through Auschwitz as well as Bergen-Belsen, coming to Sweden in July 1945 with the boat M/S Rönnskär.

Bogdan becomes the victim of the corruption in a small town when he loses a court case to a local bank but everyone in the town just covers for their friends.

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.

A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards the small town. A fanfare for the summer!

Florence Stephens inherited one of Sweden's richest estates. Her home was visited by royalty and nobility. As heir to her large estate, she appoints, herself unmarried and childless, the young extravagant Prince Carl Bernadotte trustee. A well-known family secret suggests that Florence Stephens might have blood ties to the Royal family.

Arne Evertsson is a lifeguard. In the film, he transports Ivo Maričić (1935-1998), who died in Sweden, to the grave in Croatia. The story begins when Ivo in the 1960s takes to Sweden in pursuit of a better life. His wife and children accompany him to his native village to bury him there.

Muharem came to Sweden as a refugee from Prijedor in former Yugoslavia. He returns in the film to Prijedor and is confronted with the war and captivity in the Omar camp.

The utopia of a society in which people do not live in alienation is possible. Solar power in Skellefteå started to meet the patients when the mental hospitals were closed. There are 700 people who work and are needed, even former criminals and addicts are welcome.

Professor Stella Tchaikovski is a concert pianist and teacher. She also belongs to the wretched Jews who survived the mass exterminations of the Second World War. Today Stella lives in Stockholm but the memories of the difficult time she once experienced are still alive, even today she avoids some everyday tasks that can make her reminded of Auschwitz, whose constant selection and gas chamber she miraculously survived. In her apartment she talks about the experiences of the Second World War, ideally she does not want to burden her surroundings with her stories but she reveals that what she has experienced in Auschwitz rolls like a constant ongoing film inside her head – that she has never been able to screen herself from.

To walk in Oblivion and remember their time when memory flows like a running river. Arne and Erik have become good friends in the grief and the realization that Oblivion struck. For Arne, music becomes a comfort when memory fails and he does not know where his wife lives. Erik meets Britta and their hands meet in incipient love. They are some of the people who live at Blackeberg's dementia nursing home.

Three Swedish girls, Maria, Asa and Anna, buy a Russian motorcycle with a sidecar. They head out into the Russian countryside to see what is happening in Russia, far from Moscow.

Documentary about the security of a hometown somewhere in Sweden, with a church in the middle of the village, many generations of farming, a newly opened restaurant, and neighbors who usually get along. A community that welcomes but also excludes.

Andrzej and Teresa live in Sweden. They come from Poland and work black with what work they can get hold of. They live Spartan in a rental room that they must not disclose where it is located. They want to start a new life in Sweden but do not have a contract for a white job and therefore no Social Security numbers. In the film we follow Andrzej and Teresa on their way between different Swedish authorities in the fight for a Social Security number and the last four numbers. At the same time, they meet Jacek, who has lived and worked black in Sweden for 8 years. He lives alone in a basement. He is stuck in the black job and dreams of getting the power to change his situation.

Munir comes from the war in former Yugoslavia and falls in love with Jessica from Örebro. The love story develops into a struggle between two separate worlds.

Collected scenes, voices and conversations from an editorial staff who tries to keep track of what is happening with princes and princesses, other royals and celebrities in general.

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Twelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.

About the IB affair 1973. Two young journalists, Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou, reveal an unknown spy organization. They themselves are accused of espionage and have to pay a high price for their whistle-blowing.

The documentary tells the life and times of Gustav Mauritz Armfelt (1757-1814) a member of King Gustaf III's court. He had a brilliant career as the head of culture, the royal theatres, and Swedish academy. He quickly raced to the top both politically and militarily. An eccentric and aggressive character. His relationship to Miss Magdalena Rudenschöld remains one of the most passionate in Swedish history. An extraordinary person's portrayal, from a nobody to one of Sweden's most powerful men, in such a short time.