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Freedom, the Cold War and Sweden in Olsson’s Concerning Violence

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- Using newly discovered archive footage – and French philosopher Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth - Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson will depict the struggle for liberation in the Third World

Freedom, the Cold War and Sweden in Olsson’s Concerning Violence

Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson, whose The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 [+see also:
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– about the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African-American community and Diaspora, earned him two Guldbagger (Sweden’s national film prize) – will use the experiences from the 2011 production to create a visual narrative from Africa, about the pursuit of freedom, the Cold War and Sweden.

Based on French philosopher Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961), using newly discovered archive footage, Concerning Violence (photo) will cover “the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the unrest and the reaction against it.” Scripted by Olsson, and produced by Annika Rogell and Tobias Janson for Story AB, Concerning Violence is one of three documentaries and eight shorts in a package which the Swedish Film Institute will support with €0.7 million for production funding.

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In his documentary The Spy Who Ended Up in the Cold, Polish-Swedish director Richard Solarz concludes a Cold War espionage thriller in today’s Swedish village of Burträsk near Umeå: who is Aleksander Radler - a devout priest or a ruthless spy who never hesitated to betray friends and colleagues to the Stasi in the old GDR? Solarz will produce for Direkt Film and Media.

Swedish director Marius Dybwad Brandrud’s documentary After You follows a mother spending all her time with her dying father – “and I am spending all my time filming her. After a while we do the filming more and more together; it becomes our way of dealing with the time we have left,” explained Brandrud of the Tobias Janson production for Story AB.

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