Olof Palme

Olof Palme

Born: January 30, 1927
Died: February 28, 1986
in 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.

Movies for Olof Palme...

Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
Title: Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Staten och kapitalet
Title: Staten och kapitalet
Released: May 21, 2018
Type: Movie
The Swedish elementary and secondary school is one of the world's most market liberal. How did we get there? Who took those decisions? This is the story of how parts of the Swedish school system got outsourced.
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Barn av vår tid
Title: Barn av vår tid
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Who Killed Olof Palme?
Title: Who Killed Olof Palme?
Released: February 28, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Fatal News
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 6, 2016
Type: TV
West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the Schleswig-Holstein region, is found dead in very sinister circumstances. Reporter David Burger pledges to find the truth behind one of the most important political scandals in German history, investigating countless speculations and conspiracy theories as he fights his own personal demons.
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Gåtan Christer Pettersson
Title: Gåtan Christer Pettersson
Character: Self - Swedens Prime Minister
Released: January 13, 2016
Type: Movie
About the man who first convicted and then acquitted of the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (1986). The program depicts his life from the beginning to the dramatic end.
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Bordellhärvan
Title: Bordellhärvan
Character: Prime Minister
Released: March 12, 2013
Type: Movie
"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.
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Palme
Title: Palme
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Lisbet
Title: Lisbet
Released: February 26, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifrån
Title: Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifrån
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 2003
Type: Movie
"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.
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The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Title: The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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23
Title: 23
Released: July 2, 1998
Type: Movie
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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Land of Dreams
Title: Land of Dreams
Released: February 8, 1988
Type: Movie
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
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ANC-galan
Title: ANC-galan
Character: Self
Released: November 29, 1985
Type: Movie
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Sista varningen
Title: Sista varningen
Character: Social democrate
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: Movie
About the question of whether we should proceed in developing and using nuclear power and the breakdown at Three Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 28, 1979.
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The Evening Before the Next Day
Title: The Evening Before the Next Day
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Documentary film that follows politicians during various events.
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Title: Från A till Ö
Character: Himself
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: TV
Hedvig lives in a trailer in the woods and has a nose for learning new words. Helping her is Helge, an owl who lives on her roof.
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Badjävlar
Title: Badjävlar
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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The White Match
Title: The White Match
Released: September 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Documentary film about the protests against the 1968 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia, in Båstad, Sweden. In a series of interviews, demonstrators and members of the Swedish government give their views on sport, politics and civil disobedience.
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Kårhusockupationen
Title: Kårhusockupationen
Character: Minister of Education
Released: June 12, 1968
Type: Movie
"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.
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
Title: I Am Curious (Yellow)
Character: Himself
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Title: Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Året var 1973
Title: Året var 1973
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.