Carl Johan De Geer
Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York as well as Stockholm.
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
Carl Johan De Geer reads the 80-page-long sentence. We see pictures from Lake Tjeggelva beach in Arjeplogs municipality. At the scene, four-year-old Michael was murdered on June 28, 1990.
Alvar is a pensioner who hides his guilt by "constructing" fictitious memoirs. By chance he meets Miriam, a socially tone deaf and obstinate teenager, and they become friends. Their friendship deepens when they begin to inspire downhearted people with public art, and comes to a head when they themselves have to blossom.
Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people around him, he desperately seeks a way out.
A report from Gothenburg in the future where fashion is retro and the cars are old. A Gothenburg similair to the present.
A film about male friendship that cracks. And a settlement with the 1900s patriarchal genius myth. Håkan Alexandersson (1940-2004) was an artist rebel in 60s.
Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?
A woman gets locked in the office for a whole night and is offered late take off and spend a peaceful and peaceful time in the woods.
A documentary by and about Swedish artist Carl Johan De Geer. A followup to his 1980 book with the same name.
A man finds a lot of mysterious pieces that lie here and there in the city. Is that information, is it propaganda? The man finds a map and begins to follow the paths of the patches. What will he find at the end? Who is behind everything?
Carl-Johan De Geer talks about his hometown Stockholm, how he will miss it when he's gone.
A contradictory picture of Nazism in the Swedish aristocracy. To distance themselves from Nazism is obvious for most people. But not for everyone.
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.
Behind the stage action. Three ballet girls. A janitor using rough manners to approach the girls, without success. He gets advice from a colleague to treat the girls with more respect.
A film about nature's nature and meaning "cookies" versus "patchwork". This against a serious core: "The anxiety and pressure that the adults live under, with lack of money and unfulfilled dreams lead to behaviors that the children may suffer, but as the children in this movie get an overview and help relieve."
The neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except Lotte, the wonderful girl who is an object of two mens love. He auditions a number of girls. But when he finds the right one nothing goes the way he had figured.
The bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred is plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.
A hardboiled story that takes place in a far future when most things are over. What’s left is greed, cruelty, sexuality, fire and a tad of poetry.
In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.
An newly arrived immigrant to Sweden is dazzled by the culture, conveniences and excesses of western lifestyle.
A young girl dreams of a birthday party, where family and friends from her day-care center are invited. But in fact, her parents are always quarreling.
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
A drama unfolds during a few spring days in a small Swedish town in the 1950s. Guy study hard at school, but wins no appreciation from his father. His brother Helge returns from his job at sea. They hang out at Hempas bar.
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
"Blushing Charlie" - Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
"The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.
