Skandal! (2014)
Synopsis
Behind the scenes of six of the greatest Swedish cultural upsets of our time. When the media storm blows hardest, it can be difficult to see what the core of the discussion really is and why the event has become so infected.
Network
SVT2
Episodes
Okänd kvinna 2009-349701
Anna Odell recreates a psychosis she suffered several years earlier. When she reveals that she has bluffed herself into the psychiatric ward an animated debate rises.
Makode Linde/Rastårtan
A cake party at the Modern Museum in Stockholm became a major international cultural event when Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut a piece of cake from a black marzipan women's body.
Den högsta kasten
Swedish author Carina Rydberg named in her novel" The Highest Caste" (1997) several people in Stockholm's nightlife in a furious deal with the hierarchical vie nocturne in general and a lover she felt offended in particular.
Horkarlsmyntet
"The Fornicator Coin" - During the summer of 2012, coins began to appear in Sweden embossed with the text "Our fornicator to king". About the same time, a book of outrage to provoke a scandal about the king, was published.
Docklands/Frihetsfronten
In the fall of 1995, Docklands opened its doors in a shipyard outside Stockholm. The rave club is the offshoot of the libertarian group Frihetsfronten/Freedom Front and will become notorious as a hedonistic drug nest.
Rondellhunden
The artist Lars Vilks replicates the debate of the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten's publication of the Muhammad cartoons by making a series of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad as a traffic-roundabout-dog.
Details
Original Title
Skandal!
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Production
SVT Dokumentär, SVT Kultur