Movies: Staffan Hildebrand

The architect Alexander presents a project for the Social Democratic City Council Ove: a huge shopping center where the old People's House building is located. Ove is doubtful....

In the summer of 1978 the Swedish film director Staffan Hildebrand encountered a group of young people with skateboards in Stockholm city, it resulted in a documentary about this new subculture "skateboard". The documentary, "14 års landet" (The land...

Jocke has grown up in one of Stockholm's rough suburbs. Nowadays he spends the daytime getting into trouble at school and going into Stockholm in the evenings and getting into even more trouble. After being sentenced to prison he meets Tony. After th...

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also get a bit of experience of the world: Robban becomes a full-ti...

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Anneli is soon to be 17 years old. She lives alone with her mother and can barely remember her father who left the family 10 years ago. One day she receive a letter from her father, who is a helicopter pilot up north. Anneli decides to visit him, but...

The film is loosely based on a true story about Paolo Roberto, later a professional boxer and TV presenter. Because of his Italian roots, Paolo is dealing with an identity crisis. With an admiration of Kung Fu films and with his teenage aggressions, ...

On February 28, 1981, sixteen-year-old Roger Johansson was knifed to death at the Old Town's subway station during a fight with two boys of the same age. This was in the media referred to as the punk-killing....

Paolo Roberto tells us how he's been doing after the making of "Stockholmsnatt" the first movie....

NOICE - one of Sweden's most popular groups, now on video. This film depicts the phenomenon of Noice on tour and at home. Since the start in 1977, a lot has happened. In 1979, they were discovered by the record company Sonet at a rock band competitio...

In the late 70s/early 80s, the so called "skomakarligan" (shoemaker league) was a drug smuggling operation with a shoemaker business as a front. This documentary follows the group whose job it was to track down and arrest the people involved....

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A documentary about Swedish teen culture in the 1970s, following Micke Åström, 14, and his friends....