SVT Dokumentär

On June 10, 2020, the 34-year-old Palme Inquiry was closed down because the investigators could not "get around" Skandiaman, Stig Engström. Here, the prosecutor's accusations and allegations about Stig Engström are examined.

Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, something he has wanted to do for two decades.

The story of a working-class boy who was born 50 years ago in Södertälje and who became the world's best tennis player. And who, after 763 victories, suddenly stopped, at only 26 years old.

Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But after only 303 days, Håkan Juholt's time as party leader for the Social Democrats was over.

Top Swedish chefs Björn Frantzén and Daniel Lindeberg are working hard to get a third Michelin star for their restaurant but the pressure starts getting too much for their relationship.

The actor and director Gösta Ekman was one of Sweden's most popular artists. He was born 77 years ago straight into the Swedish acting elite. In this memory film, we start from the very last filmed interview that was done with Gösta.

A portrait of Swedish troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk.

She has been called the world's oldest blogger. This film is about a very energetic 103-year old, Dagny Carlsson.

Mats Öberg, born 1971 in Umeå, Sweden, has been living in Stockholm for many years, where he moved when he entered the Royal Academy of Music, where for two and a half years he studied individual music and, among other things, studied with the pianist Stefan Nilsson. Frank Zappa is one of Mats Öberg's idols. Together with drummer Morgan Ågren, Mats formed the group Zappatetoot early on, which only played Zappa covers. Then when Frank Zappa played in Stockholm in 1988, Mats and Morgon had the opportunity to meet him and also sit in the band. It was the beginning of a continued collaboration which meant that they both got to participate in the projects Zappa's Universe and Zappa at Lincoln Center in 1993.

Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. Pia was 14 years old when she started smoking cannabis and using drugs. Then it all happened really fast. The heavier drugs, the men who beat, and years of cold nights in basements and attics. Treatment and punishment. Rehabs and prisons. Relapse. Constantly back, at the complete bottom, among shame and guilt. For ten years, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson documented Pia's life. Two films were made, this is the third and last film, which shows how she managed to get clean against all odds.

Tord Grip is only 1.72 tall, but still one of the greats in Swedish football. Yes, he is the baker from Ytterhogdal who through football got the world as a workplace. But constantly in the shadow of Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson.

Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but mixes his comedy with an overall serious message about inclusion and understanding.

Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job.

A music documentary about the Nazi looting and purging of Jewish musical life during the 1930s and 1940s. The film follows conductor Sofia Winiarski as she works to stage the production "Stolen Music" (*Stulen musik*) at Folkoperan in Stockholm. It highlights music by Jewish composers whom the Nazis systematically sought to erase from music history. In her search for surviving works, Sofia travels to Warsaw to uncover sheet music and lyrical fragments in the archives. For Sofia, this is both a professional and a personal journey.

A personal documentary about Hasse Aro, the Finn from Tumba who became a popular journalist and presenter, where Hasse searches for the answer to the question of when it became "into being a Finn". We get to follow Hasse backstage.

By the autumn of 2026, 25 years will have passed since the Swedish-Eritrean journalist and author Dawit Isaak was arrested in Eritrea. He is thus the EU citizen who has been imprisoned the longest as a prisoner of conscience. To this day, Dawit Isaak has neither been charged nor convicted. Twenty-five years of quiet diplomacy by Sweden have failed to secure his release. The film was first broadcast on SVT in 2011, at which point Isaak had been imprisoned for 10 years.