Movies: Klas-Gösta Olsson

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city....

The narrative portrays a plain man who guides the viewer through his life in a bleakly stylised world....

As the AIDS epidemic was spreading in 1987, the Swedish government commissioned Roy Andersson to make an educational film about the disease. In these twenty or so monotone scenes, Andersson criticizes the medical community for its dehumanizing and ra...

A Kurt Wallander mystery told from the perspectives of police and criminal. A foreign teenage girl burns herself to death under inspector Wallander's eyes. Several homicides take place where the victim is not only killed but scalped. The victims don'...