A murder, a dead cop, and 77 minutes of Swedish paranoia. Who's left to trust?
In a small Swedish town, the murder of Frome, the owner of a public relations research firm, takes place. A day later, his friend Touraine, the police commissioner leading the investigation, is killed...
Direction
Urbla squeezes dread from empty streets and fluorescent offices.
Cinematography
Bleak 80s Sweden never looked this beautifully hopeless.
Director
Peeter Urbla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Estonian director Urbla shot this Swedish-language mystery during the Soviet era, smuggling bleak capitalist cynicism past censors who barely noticed.
The 'closed circle' structure nods to golden age detective fiction while subverting it—here, the circle closes on the audience too.
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