Lars Hjelm

A four-part series about drugs, drug traffic and drug addicts in Sweden. All participants appeared completely open regarding identity and views. The program series was widely mentioned and started a discussion about the large quantities of prescribed and illegal drugs in our society.

In 1970, writer/reporter Ingrid Dahlberg and photographer Lars Hjelm from the Swedish National Television visited North Vietnam as the very first foreign team in the disbanded areas at the 17th latitude, the central parts of North Vietnam.

The Liberian American Swedish Mining Company (LAMCO) was a mining company that mined iron-ore in northern Liberia at the Nimba massif. About 15,000 Swedes worked for Lamco and the project was cited as a successful example of international cooperation. But in this film the Swedish TV viewers were presented a very different picture. The film broke with the conventional African portrayal and the Swedes in Liberia were portrayed as colonial-era heirs. The film was supplemented with a debate.