"We strongly repudiate the first two charges." "No Swedish organizations have been broken into." "Wire tapping is not used." "American Air Force is now met by a more efficient Vietnamese resistance." "American planes have been shot down." "You shouldn't have to wait three-four years for a place in a day nursery." "Immigration to Sweden continues with a couple of thousand a month." "Hammarkullen has a population of 7150 registered persons." "We've written decently about every other Swede, who is a woman..." "The winner of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest..." "Doing the immoral hit-song festival" "The tax rate was 102 per cent and "Pomperipossa" just had to accept it." "We've come to an agreement today, to end the war in Vietnam." "It feels great to take part in Vietnam's victory." "Barsebäck has to disappear!" "Barsebäck has to disappear!" "Another way to cut down on the expenses is inferior quality." "Elections 1976." "This shipyard is a great asset." "We have a responsibility towards the employees." "We can, all of us, pin our faith on these people." "We see daily in the papers that industries close down, and it's harder to get another job." "12 000 jobs will disappear in Gothenburg the next five years." "Today is a sad day for many shipyard workers." "In half an hour the last ship will be launched, and thousands of workers will have an uncertain future." "You've worked here for 20 years." "How do you feel?" "Like hell." "We're all mad." "Who are you mad at?" "Dan Axel Broström who's drained the company completely." "The government let us down, too." "Palme promised to save the shipyard." "What says the union?" "Did they fight?" "Hell, no!" "They agreed on the closing-down behind our back." "They are joyful." "We lose our jobs." "They don't." "What do they gain from this?" "Maybe their solution to our working environment problems is unemployment." "You're young." "What do you think?" "It's like shit." "Thanks." "Dan Axel Broström's dead drunk English night-club queen had the honour to christen the last ship in champagne." "Here it says that over 200 employees will be reduced this year." "Mainly nurses, midwives and assistant nurses." "At the same time we all know that hundreds in the administration and those at the head of the hospital have new titles and increased wages." "The bureaucrats new wages exceed what our colleagues earn in a year." "It's senseless!" "Last week a man in the emergency-room died, waiting for a dialysis." "And you know why?" "There weren't any machines free." "When we said that new machines had to be bought, the hospital director Högberg said that there's no money." "At the same time Högberg has bought art works for hundreds of thousands!" "Well, the patients have something beautiful to look at when they die." "It's a bit late!" "We should ask the union to protest to the medical board." "If that's not enough, we'll have to really start making a fuss." "That's all there is to it." "It wasn't really a surprise." "I'd have hoped to die first." "If you go on like that it won't be long." "Do you know what the worst thing is?" "Instead of fighting for the shipyard my so-called union colleagues have been registrating Communists and radical shipyard workers." "I've seen the register in the office." "Over 200 names." "Yours is there, too." "It would have been an insult if it wasn't." "But, hell, I've never been an informer." "The party never forgave me for that." "So much for my career in the union..." "Tommy, I'll tell you something." "The Social Democrats greatest mistake was to refuse the radical youth, and decide to see them as enemies instead of an asset." "What are you staring at?" "Nothing." "Good, continue like that." "Yes, hello." "Mom, it's me." "Erik." "What do you want?" "Dad hasn't much time left." "I'm sad to hear that." "Can't you come?" "I'll hang up now." "Just a moment." "It's no use, Erik." "She'll come, won't she?" "I knew that." "That she loves me a little bit." "We must talk about what happened at the party last Friday." "It's no use." "We were so drunk that nobody remembers anything." "The headmaster has suggested that there'll be no more parties." "No!" "It's your own fault." "You've broken all the rules we had agreed on together." "What do you mean "together"?" "You agreed!" "No teacher can be held responsible if you waste yourself." "There's a big risk if you go on like that." "Speedy Gonzales, Speedy Gonzales Let's get high, let's get high" "There'll be a meeting in the hall tomorrow, and I want you all there." "I mean all!" "Everyone must come to the meeting!" " Did you hear that?" "You too, Lasse." " And you." "Tomorrow after lunch." "Hello!" "Talk to me." "Can't anyone listen?" "Hello..." "STATE LIQUOR STORE" "I'll just buy a bottle of wine for mom." "A bottle of Vino Tinto, please." "Anything else?" "No." "I mean... well, I don't know." "Some canned Falcon, as well." "How many do you want?" "6." "No..." "I'll have 12." "12 canned Falcon." "It stinks!" "Are they repainting?" "It's thinner, mom." "Can you take that?" "Yes." "Let's go out before someone wants the elevator." "I have wine, mom." "Do you want some?" "I play the piano again." "You do?" "I began after the divorce." "That's good for you." "The best thing I ever did!" "To get a divorce..." "If I'd known it was that great to live alone, I'd have done it long ago" "It's so silent." "Can't you put on some music?" "I have no gramophone." "ls this what you wanted?" "You had so many dreams..." "Why do you say that?" "I still have dreams." "And... what's his name?" "Her dad?" "Roger." "Where is he?" "We have no contact." "He's studying in Stockholm." "He doesn't want to hear from me and" "I don't want to hear from him either, so..." "I know what you think." "It's just that..." "I thought you wanted to become something big." "I am, I'm a teacher." "You could have chosen a nicer neighbourhood." "Why?" "This is where I'm needed." "The school is important to me." "The most important, after Ida." "And the music?" "I've stopped playing." "You've stopped playing?" "I didn't feel like it any more." "I haven't touched a guitar in several years." "But it was everything to you." "Stop nagging!" "Not many paid here..." "Did you?" "Of course." "Well, time to be useful." "Anybody wants the rose?" "No." "Take it." "May I?" "Yes, if you've paid." "Sure." "How is little Johanna today?" "The treatment is a success." "Good." "I had almost given up hope." "I'll check on her right away." "Rebecka!" "Yes?" "Do you know what Elisabet told me this morning about Lindman?" "She went to dinner with him last Friday." "With that slimy guy?" "She finds him elegant." "It's just incomprehensible." "She hoped for a romantic evening." "But guess what he wanted to talk about?" "About you." "About me?" "!" "Yes, about you and a few others." "First he gave her a lot of wine so she was all dizzy." "Then he asked if she thought you are a revolutionary Communist." "Why did he ask that?" "I don't know." "He asked a lot." "If you are a revoutionary Communist, if you see Palestinians, if you still steal medicine from the medicine cabinet." "They say his work is to develop the staff, but I don't believe that." "What do you think he does?" "I don't know." "But Elisabet told me last week that he sat reading The Proletarian." "When she came in he asked if she knew who had put it there." "It's so fishy." "A crazy funny figure!" "Was it good?" "Yes, great." "Little funny figure Little funny figure" "And then..." "Tommy, I'm home." "Hi." "Have you been home long?" "Have you been drinking?" "No, I poured them out." "Why the hell did you buy beer?" "I don't know." "Fuck, Tommy!" "I don't know what happened." "You must go to more meetings." "I know, I will." "I'll never ask you again to buy anything for me there." "That might be a fucking good idea." "This isn't funny." "I know." "You're frightening me scared stiff!" "I'm sorry." "I haven't been to the meetings, because I've had so much work." "But I'll go there tomorrow." "I'll talk to my sponsor." "Sorry." "Weren't you supposed to clean up?" "I did, as you can see..." "It's ten years since we met." "In an emergency ward!" "Let's get married." "What?" "Can't we get married?" "Are you serious?" "Of course I'm serious." "Do you want to?" "Do you want to marry me?" "We could get married in Birgitta's chapel." "In church?" "Yes." "Otherwise it won't be a real marriage." "You fucking bourgeois!" "Stop it!" "Can't you stay for the night?" "I can't, you know that." "If I give you 1000 Kronor?" "I just want to lie next to you." "Wake up with you tomorrow morning." "Have breakfast together." "No, I don't want to stay." "My father just died..." "How sad." "Hi, I'm Tommy and I'm an alcoholic." "Hi, Tommy." "Yesterday I went to the State liquor store to buy wine for Rebecka." "And at the cash-desk I hear myself say: "6 canned strong beer, too."" ""What the hell are you doing?" "You're buying strong beer!"" "Then another voice said: "It's OK, Tommy, you won't drink them."" "You recognize that, don't you?" "I told the cashier to go and get 12 canned Falcon." "I poured them out in the sink when I got home." "But I'm so afraid that I'm back to drinking again." "So afraid..." "Hi, Wallraff." "Please accept my condolences." "Why different shares?" "I'll give you a quick course in Social Democratic planned economy." "This is for Palme." "Local taxes and payroll taxes." "The biggest one!" "This is for mom, a pay-off on the loans from when I got out of prison." "This is for me and my employees." "And when my incompetent staff had their share, this hundred bill is all that is left for me." "The Social Democrats try to turn this country into a big kolkhoz." "So, this is Sweden when you've become friends with Sebastian Broström." "Are you jealous?" "No." "Every time we meet you talk about him." "Thousands of workers lost their jobs because of him." "The whole shipbuilding industry is a dying dinosaur." "They're doing them a favour." "You once welded in the cutting wind." "Better not to have to do that, right?" "That's easy for you to say." "You can borrow half a million from your mom." "You know what your problem is?" "No, tell me." "You have some kind of working class guilt, because you're out of it." "Stop that." "Why do you complain about taxes?" "You don't pay any." "I mean for reasons of principal." "Rebecka and I are getting married." "I have proposed to her." "Congratulations!" "It's about time." "We'll have the party here." "I'll pay." "How can you afford that?" "Living on a kolkhoz..." "Cheers." "Be quiet!" "Did you hear what I said?" "You hear me?" "Birger!" "Why do you run away?" "Wouldn't it be better to stay and answer my questions." "Tell the listeners." "Why do you close down the working men's hotel?" "I don't speak to you." "You know that." "Throwing out people on the street has become your speciality." "No comments." "I've followed your career since you were young and closed Cue Club 1966." "What is your outlook on people?" "He's hiding in his office." "I'll try to get him out." "Birger, I have a few more questions." "But I suppose there won't be any answers today, since I'm thrown out." "Birger Andersson called his guards." "Independent journalism is at danger." "Berglund!" "Were you at the match yesterday?" "No?" "The sausages have gone up and is served only in shiny paper." "And they've changed for fucking ordinary napkins." "Listen..." "Do you know what this is?" "No." "Reports against your program the last six months." "Guess how many." "17." "19." "After today I'm sure you can celebrate the 20th this weekend." "What are you trying to do?" "Set a world record or what?" "I just want an answer to my questions." "If you go on like this, my bosses might force me to fire you." "They dare not..." "Oh, yes!" "And if you go, I go." "Because what you say on the air is my responsibility." "I can't risk having you on live, when you can't behave properly." "Do you want my pistol and my badge?" "What I want?" "I'll stop your program right away." "I can't have you on the air." "Are you joking?" "No politician wants to talk to Radio Gothenburg because of your programs." "Which means I've done a good job." "You no longer get a bonus for kicking those in power in the ass." "It's not 1968, any more." "You're off duty with no salary until further notice." "I'll do what I can to save your ass." "I know you have a family to support." "But your career as a hatchet-man at this station is over." "You'll read the sports results at the most." "You can't even piss without starting a world war in the pan." "If you send the tests, I'll report on two patients here." "How are you feeling today?" "Better?" "Take a deep breath." "You haven't vomited today?" "No." "What are you up to?" "Excuse me, what do you mean?" "Why do you ask the girls about my political opinions?" "What are you talking about?" "Ask me!" "I have no secrets." "I vote for the Communists." "Last year I worked 4 weeks in a Palestinian refugee camp, Tel-El-Zaatar." "If there's anything more you want to know, ask me now that I'm here." "Who the hell do you work for?" "Let go of me, or else you'll be sorry." "The last payment." "We said: "Out of debt next year."" "The restaurant goes better than expected." "I don't want any debts." "I was never confident for your idea of opening a restaurant." "I thought it was throwing the money away." "But your father convinced me, and I'm ready to admit I was wrong." "Very generous of you." "One day you'll need help again." "I'd rather die than borrow money from you again." "This is too much." "I added ten per cent interest." "As I said, I want no debts." "Very generous of you." "No questions about dad's funeral?" "I'm not interested." "I'm just happy I got a divorce before he got cancer and made me a widow." "He would have liked that." "Before he died he kept on..." "I don't want to know anything!" "I couldn't tell him that you didn't want to come." "I knew he loved you, although you dispised him and was unfaithful." "Watch out, Erik." "So I lied to him." "I said you would come, that you were on your way." "Then he was calm." "I never understood why men wanted to put their dicks inside of you." "You're ice-cold inside." "Your cunt is a fucking mortuary." "I know that..." "What the hell have you done to me?" "HE WAS BORN TO BECOME A FATHER!" "NO PROFESSION, HE MARRIED YOUNG!" "Sit down." "Hello." "Stop it, he'll vomit." "What's for dinner?" "Plaice." "You know the staff manager I told you about." "The guy I thought trained the staff." "Yes?" "What about him?" "I heard he asked others about my political opinions." "What is it for dinner?" "Plaice." "He asked if I was a revolutionary Communist, if I still steal medicine." "You don't say!" "Why did he ask that?" "I've never been a member of the party." "Everybody knows that." "And I stopped stealing 3 years ago." "How did he know, by the way?" "It's strange." "I don't get it." "Here, I'll wipe your face." "They stopped my program today." "What did you say?" "I'm off duty without pay." "Are you joking with me?" "No, I might even get the sack." "What did you do this time?" "Nothing." "I asked Birger Andersson a question." "You said you wouldn't provoke people any more." "I don't provoke people." "Yes, you do." "I knew it would..." "He won't get away with anything." "Neither will you." "You have a family." "What will happen to us?" "Shall I stop asking questions because of our bills?" "And you?" "!" "It was taking a risk to send medicine to people in Lebanon." "Times were different then." "Oh, yeah?" "Where did you go, Rebecka?" "It's different now." "We have a child." "A child, yes." "Do you want me to sell out my ideals for Johan, or what?" "Hell..." "Yes, that's what I say!" "If you leave now, don't bother to come back." "Fucking idiot!" "Hello." "What will it be?" "Today's special." "Anything to drink?" "I'll have a beer." "Thanks." "I'll have a whisky, a double." "Can I use the phone?" "Sure." "I'll have another one." "Free enterprise no longer pays off." "It's bad to earn money in Sweden." "Astrid Lindgren had a tax rate of 102 per cent last year." "It's sick!" "Rich people are treated worse than criminals." "The Swedish Employers' Confederation will change that." "Hi, it's Rebecka again. ls Tommy..." "No, he hasn't turned up yet." "He'll soon be here." "Don't worry." "You know him when he gets angry." "Worse than Johan..." "Exactly." "You can phone me whenever you want." "Thanks." "We'll have a campaign to get back the ideological initiative from the Left." "And win the political battle for the young." "It's damned pretty!" "Yes." "In a few weeks we'll have a press conference and a party afterwards." "We could have it here." "I've always liked this place." "That's fucking good." "It'll be in the papers and on posters." "ls this the best you have?" "Yes." "It's for my daughter." "ls she a beginner?" "No, she can play." "Lena, I broke one of your wine glasses." "It's a Guild with steelstrings." "He said it's a very good guitar." "Many American artists have them." "Joan Baez has it." "But, Lena, what is it?" "Tell me." "I feel so lonely." "Wow, it's the celeb!" "Long time, no see." "Come in and sit down." "Have a beer or something." "Hell, Tommy..." "Haven't you heard anything?" "Not bad..." "She's delicious." "Let's bring her home and fuck her." "I'm getting married soon." "So what?" "Relax, Tommy." "Relax." "Come on, Tommy." "I want to get up." "No, sleep a little bit more." "Stay there, Johan." "Sleep a little bit more." "Come, let's have breakfast." "Come... up we go..." "Sit here..." "Sit down." "Eat this." "Isn't it old?" "No." "Eat." "Why don't you come home with me to come down?" "Can't you give me a lift home?" "I gotta get home." "Hello." "Has he been in touch?" "No." "Bye, Johan." "If he comes in today, tell him to call me." "Thanks." "Levander wants to speak with you." "He said it's important." "It'll be alright." "You wanted to speak with me." "Yes, sit down." "I have to ask you to hand in your resignation." "What?" "Your resignation." "I don't understand." "I've done all I can to get the hospital director to change his mind." "But he didn't want to listen." "Are you serious?" "I'm afraid so." "Why?" "What did I do?" "Officially you've stolen medicine." "That was 2 years ago." "I told them myself and Högberg gave me a warning." "How can they fire me two years later?" "You're considered an uncomfortable person." "It's that fucking Lindman, right?" "Yes, and I heard you attacked him." "I warned you for politics, remember?" "To mix your profession with your political beliefs." "You swine!" "Fucking idiot!" "I'll take this to the press." "Tell them there's a registrator of political opinions at the hospital." "Calm down!" "Rebecka, please..." "You understand?" "You'll read about this in the paper." "You fucking ass-kisser!" "Fucking bourgeois!" "He's lying upstairs." "I'm sorry." "How can you do this to me when I need you?" "You're out of here." "I never want to see you again." "Leif Risö, editor for the trade union's paper The Sailor." "He wrote: "This is a spy story." "Unfortunately it's true." "Unfortunately, because it's about how the employer and a politician help the Swedish National Security Service, SÄPO, to spy at employees." "This took place at the medical administration in Gothenburg." "It concerns mainly nurses, janitors, doctors and office staff." "But also all workers in Sweden." "The 24th he'll come forward himself to deny being an agent for SÄPO."" "There's still a suspicion about registration of political opinions, so I have to come forward and deny it all." "They're completely wrong." "I don't know what to do, mom." "You know how many times I tried with your father - in vain..." "You'll never be able to trust him again." "An alcoholic never changes." "I'll draw two funny figures." "I let the little gull out." "He hobbled a bit but flew away." "Well, that's it." "Thanks." "Hi, I'm Tommy and I'm an alcoholic." "Hi, Tommy." "Mix - camera 3..." "General election 1976." "Now." "It means security for work and security for income." "But it's also about the future society we want to build." "Our party leader Torbjörn Fälldin." "Torbjörn!" "Torbjörn!" "Torbjörn!" "We now know all the risks that nuclear power engenders." "They talk about security, solidarity and equality." "What happened to that?" "I say like Boman:" ""He's a strong man." He really is." "We say: "It's now that we must work for a change in energy politics."" "I'd like my coffee in peace and quiet." "Politicians saying on TV that there's an election campaign is an insult." "They should get out in the field." "Are you on the workers and the employees side?" "We're there!" "This is the final struggle" "Come inside and have coffee." "You talk as if we were to continue with nuclear power." "A society of straightened backs!" "A society of solidarity!" "The Social Democrats sat up waiting for the election results to come in, and they were really worried..." "Sten Andersson, will you lose power after 44 years?" "Well, it's not over yet." "The changes are few, but yes, they are negative." "This map shows the 28 districts we talked about this evening." "Socialist majority is in red, for those who have color TV." "The bourgeois majority is in blue, and dark on a black-and-white TV." "I think every serious observer of this election result must say that it's something rather..." "Well, I didn't fall." "Well, I'll take a piss." "Every serious observer must say that after this boom in many elections..." "We've won the election!" "WEATHER FORECAST" "I'm coming!" "Hell, you're a beauty!" "Erik, we've got to go." "Go to the car." "I'll check on the cake." " Moa, my jacket!" "But you promised." "Yeah, sure." "Hell, it wasn't yesterday." "Nice costume!" "What's this little fellow called?" "Don't touch my son." "Don't you recognize him?" "Tommy Berglund, the famous journalist." "We're old pals." " Right, Tommy?" "Where the hell did you go, by the way?" "You just disappeared." "Here." "And now go to hell." "What's that?" "Show me a little respect after all I've done for you." "You've done nothing for me." "No?" "So you've forgotten all the mornings, at five outside my door, begging for some on tick." "Scram!" "I've had enough of talking to you." "What the hell are you doing?" "One day you'll be there and beg to buy again." "You can be rich or famous, to me you'll always be a junkie." "Or what do you think?" "It's a couple's duty, to love and honor each other." "Love is specially important." "The First Epistle to the Corinthians talks about love in the 13th chapter." "And it's love you must administer in your marriage." "Before God and in this church I ask you, Tommy Berglund, do you want to take Rebecka Josefin Söderström as your lawful wife, and love her for better or for worse?" "Yes." "Before God and in this church I ask you, Rebecka Josefin Söderström, do you want to take Tommy Berglund as your lawful husband, and love him for better or for worse?" "Yes, I will." "Tommy and Rebecka, give each other the rings." "Don't laugh now, Tommy." "Rebecka, now you give Tommy his ring as a token of your marriage." "I now declare you husband and wife." "HAPPY PEOPLE" "Water, please." "I'm so happy for you." "I'm glad you're playing again." "I'm going on a tour with the Tent project next year." "The National theatre will do a tour with some independent theatre groups." "They'll play music and perform theatre plays in a circus tent about the working class' history." "I'm so happy!" "Cheers!" "Where is the men's room?" "Over there, to the right." "Your dad is such a good dancer." "Lena, a glass of champagne?" "With pleasure." "Not for you..." "A toast..." "To Tommy and Rebecka!" "Not again!" "To us staying friends another ten years!" "Yes!" "Cheers!" "May I have this dance?" "If you hadn't left for America, it might have been you and Lena." "Are you jealous?" "Thanks." "It'll be alright, Tommy." "Let's dance." "Only 25 Kronor an hour?" "You should have 40 at least!" "Erik would never agree to that." "It's in the agreement." "We're not in the union." "Then you have to get organized." "Erik says he takes the decisions." "Oh, yeah?" "Then I'll tell him that class society is abolished." "On Monday I'll call your union so that you can discuss your salaries." "Please, don't." "It's been like this for a year now." "It doesn't matter." "If you argue with him he'll fire us." "You had 25 Kronor for a year?" "!" "Retroactive payment as well!" "Thanks a lot." "Mom is looking for you." "I'm trying to organize the youngsters here." "You can do that tomorrow." "Dance with mom now." "Sure but first I'll take a leak." "Bye, Ingvar." "Tommy, I'm so proud of you." "Did I tell you that?" "I loved you so much for what you did." "Maybe I never told you that." "Erik!" "I don't know how to thank you for this party." "Aren't you dancing?" "Erik!" "Why not?" "You're fucking crazy!" "You'd be great together." "Because you're so different." "He's frightening me in a way." "It's great to see you and Tommy together." "He's feeling fine now." "It's just so hard for me to trust him." "You'll have to." "Yes." "To make it work." "I'll live day by day, like Tommy says." "I've decided to go to Beirut, Tel-El-Zaatar." "What?" "!" "I'll work as a volunteer for a couple of months." "Isn't it dangerous?" "They talked about a massacre on TV." "Yes, the Israelian soldiers let Christian Falangists shoot hundreds of Palestinians." "It's fucking awful!" "I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I didn't go down there to help." "What does Tommy say?" "Won't he be worried about you?" "I haven't told him yet." "What are you thinking?" "Do you remember the Stones concert?" "When Lena and I bathed afterwards?" "Then during the night, when we were lying in bed the three of us, when I heard it happen, when she chose you..." "Then I thought:" ""I'll never come closer than this."" "Do you ever think about what happened in the USA?" "No." "My problem is that love doesn't turn me on." "I get horny from dirt and degradation." "Love just scares the shit out of me." "I'm gonna kill you, you fucker!" "Erik, Erik..." "Help!" "Call an ambulance!" "Call an ambulance!" "Call an ambulance, for Christ's sake!" "No!" "Erik!" "Help!" "Help!"