Palme

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.

Olof Palme

(Self (archive footage))

Lisbeth Palme

Lennart Geijer

(Self (archive footage))

Peter Bratt

Ingvar Carlsson

Mårten Palme

Tage Erlander

(Self (archive footage))

David Frost

(Self (archive footage))

Catharina Palme

Richard Guston

Olof Ruin

Lars Edelstam

Nikolai Bulganin

(Self (archive footage))

Nikita Khrushchev

(Self (archive footage))

Vyacheslav Molotov

Jan O. Karlsson

Vilgot Sjöman

(Self (archive footage))

Shirley MacLaine

Francisco Franco

Henry Kissinger

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

(Self (archive footage))

Joakim Palme

Mattias Palme

Anna-Greta Leijon

Carl Bildt

Ulf Adelsohn

Kjell-Olof Feldt

Jörn Donner

Carl Johan De Geer

Roy Andersson

Jan Guillou

Christina Jutterström

Anette Kullenberg

Anders Ferm

Ingvar Boman

Mona Sahlin

Håkan Isacson

(Self (archive footage))

Tage Danielsson

(Self (archive footage))

Thorbjörn Fälldin

(Self (archive footage))

Claire Wikholm

Desmond Tutu

Anna Lindh

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Schori

Harry Schein

Yasser Arafat

Astrid Lindgren

Antonia Ax:son Johnson

Richard Nixon

Ingrid Thulin

Sven Aspling

Margaret Thatcher

Ingmar Bergman

Gösta Bohman

Paul McCartney

John Lennon

Ringo Starr

Harald Edelstam

Björn Ulvaeus

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Agnetha Fältskog

Mikhail Gorbachev

Daniel Ortega

Fidel Castro

Andreas Papandreou

Salvador Allende

Cora Weiss

Edward N. Luttwak

Rolf Ekman

Benny Andersson

Leonid Brezhnev

George Harrison

Jacqueline Kennedy

Mauno Koivisto

Ronald Reagan

Pete Seeger

Barbra Streisand

Prince Bertil

Max von Sydow