26 minutes that made Sweden question everything about duty and violence.
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.
Direction
Björkman turns bureaucratic testimony into genuine tension.
Editing
Juxtaposes state justification with human cost, no commentary needed.
Director
Stig Björkman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Sweden's 1968-1969 debate on compulsory military service, this was radical state-funded dissent—public television airing anti-establishment testimony with government money.
Director Stig Björkman later became Ingmar Bergman's authorized biographer; this early work shows the same unblinking gaze at moral contradiction.
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