Håkan Pieniowski

A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards Mariefred. A fanfare for the summer! A journey through a breathtakingly beautiful landscape to the sound of the old steam engine's quiet but powerful inhalation and exhalation. A declaration of love for old shipping and a rich history of the steam engine.

Documentary about early 20th century revue artist and satirist Karl Gerhard

Documentary about early 20th century revue artist and satirist Karl Gerhard

Prince Eugen painted his parents' royal palace as a dark castle. Born with a gold spoon in his mouth, he chose a different life than the royal family wanted. He took a political and professional position and went his own way. Eugen became the painting prince and built his own palace at Waldemarsudde which he gave away after his death. Prince Eugen has just turned 150 and celebrated his anniversary at Waldemarsudde, the castle at Djurgården that he left to the Swedes. The Prince's path to independence and creation was crooked. As the youngest son in the Bernadotte family, the son was to become an officer. Of course, what others found, of course, to choose life partners and occupations, Eugen relinquished. But life as an artist and at the same time as a representative of the royal family gave him no rest. Did he succeed in his painting just because he was a prince? He didn't feel at home anywhere.

Being part of a context is a right we often forget, especially when it comes to people on the periphery of existence. Leif Stenberg is the journalist who goes from words to deeds. Together with some men, who for various reasons slipped out of society's normality norm, Leif Stenberg starts a theater. The play they create is shaped right out of the men's life stories. We meet quiet Tore, Christoffer and Olle, who in their lonely lives tell of dreams and longing.

A film filled with music and a dense web of personal thoughts. From the machine sludge of the large washing facility, music emerges and women emerge with their simple but strong stories. In contrast to the working women, a concert pianist sits in the evening dress and plays Chopin's nocturner.

A film filled with music and a dense web of personal thoughts. From the machine sludge of the large washing facility, music emerges and women emerge with their simple but strong stories. In contrast to the working women, a concert pianist sits in the evening dress and plays Chopin's nocturner.

Documentary about the security of a home somewhere in Sweden with the church in the middle of the village, many generations of farming, a newly opened Tavern and neighbors who are usually sams. A community that welcomes but also closes out.

Twelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.

Twelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.

Twelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.

Twelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.

A movie about getting a big buck on top of the salary. Åke Persson, director of the company, gives his employees the full gain-on the condition that they vote for each other based on how much each of them is worth to the company. Åke believes that it is possible to get more out of us Swedes.

The utopia of a society in which people do not live in alienation is possible. Solar power in Skellefteå started to meet the patients when the mental hospitals were closed. There are 700 people who work and are needed, even former criminals and addicts are welcome.

A K-Special on the theme of Public Service where satirgänget Public Service from Sveriges Radio's Good Morning, the world! take us on a journey in today's media world. Today's sketches heckled politicians and media celebrities interspersed with voices from Public Service antiquity. The debate from the start of Sweden's Television and our relationship with the Dear TV and radio. Who should own and who should decide and how should it sound?

Karin's specialty is cleaning crystal chandeliers. With the new deduction options for household-related services, Karin has gained momentum in her individual company.

"The Power and the Truth" - depicts the Geijer-affair or the Brothel-affair in 1977 where journalist Peter Bratt was forced to publish an apology in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter even though it turned out that everything he had previously written in the case was true. The Swedish Minister of Justice Lennart Geijer was accused of using under age escort girls provided by the Madam Doris Hopp in Stockholm. Geijer denied the charges..

Andrzej and Teresa live in Sweden. They come from Poland and work black with what work they can get hold of. They live Spartan in a rental room that they must not disclose where it is located. They want to start a new life in Sweden but do not have a contract for a white job and therefore no Social Security numbers. In the film we follow Andrzej and Teresa on their way between different Swedish authorities in the fight for a Social Security number and the last four numbers. At the same time, they meet Jacek, who has lived and worked black in Sweden for 8 years. He lives alone in a basement. He is stuck in the black job and dreams of getting the power to change his situation.

Portrait of mime professor Stanislaw Brosowski, teacher at the Stockholm Theatre Academy.

Professor Stella Tchaikovski is a concert pianist and teacher. She also belongs to the wretched Jews who survived the mass exterminations of the Second World War. Today Stella lives in Stockholm but the memories of the difficult time she once experienced are still alive, even today she avoids some everyday tasks that can make her reminded of Auschwitz, whose constant selection and gas chamber she miraculously survived. In her apartment she talks about the experiences of the Second World War, ideally she does not want to burden her surroundings with her stories but she reveals that what she has experienced in Auschwitz rolls like a constant ongoing film inside her head – that she has never been able to screen herself from.

To walk in Oblivion and remember their time when memory flows like a running river. Arne and Erik have become good friends in the grief and the realization that Oblivion struck. For Arne, music becomes a comfort when memory fails and he does not know where his wife lives. Erik meets Britta and their hands meet in incipient love. They are some of the people who live at Blackeberg's dementia nursing home.

The story of Dagny Juel (1867-1901) who was considered the muse of several artists and writers around the turn of the last century. Dagny married Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Dagny Juel spent time in the circles of August Strindberg and Edvard Munch.

Seven Polish nuns take care of 35 Swedish women at a retirement home in Bagarmossen in Stockholm. The nuns have their clause and their chapel where they Daily pray their prayers. The ladies live in the second part of the House. The film tells about the still life.

Arne Evertsson is a lifeguard. In the film, he transports Ivo Maričić (1935-1998), who died in Sweden, to the grave in Croatia. The story begins when Ivo in the 1960s takes to Sweden in pursuit of a better life. His wife and children accompany him to his native village to bury him there.

Engineer Axel Blomgren from Sweden has been employed at the Nobel Brothers Oil Field in Baku in 1910. The film is based on Axel's Diaries cross-cut with the story of how the Nobel brothers built an oil empire in the late 1800s. We follow Axel Blomgren until everything is confiscated by the communists in 1920 and Axel escapes home to Sweden.

Sequel to the movie " I love you Natasja!" (1999). The film tells about some of the women who give birth in the first film.

Muharem came to Sweden as a refugee from Prijedor in former Yugoslavia. He returns in the film to Prijedor and is confronted with the war and captivity in the Omar camp.

Three Swedish girls, Maria, Asa and Anna, buy a Russian motorcycle with a sidecar. They head out into the Russian countryside to see what is happening in Russia, far from Moscow.

Bogdan becomes the victim of the corruption in a small town when he loses a court case to a local bank but everyone in the town just covers for their friends.

Journalists Bo G. Andersson and Christoph Andersson travel in the wake of Bofors illegal gunpowder shops in the middle of the Iran-Iraq War. A story about lies and excuses. Mats Lundberg, then head of Marketing at Bofors, is seized with documents from the Stasi archives in Germany. Documents proving that Lundberg has been a frequent guest of the East Germans.

Munir comes from the war in former Yugoslavia and falls in love with Jessica from Örebro. The love story develops into a struggle between two separate worlds.

After the fall of communism, the Catholic Church wants to reintroduce a total abortion ban in Poland. The film describes what happens to women when the new law forces them to have an abortion illegally.

The film is set in the textile town of Łódź in Poland. Anna Skoneczka is an employee of the internal radio station of the plant. In the break between communism and The New Poland, she ends up in remorse and confusion. A film describing what happened to people in the shadow of the fall of the Iron Curtain:

Zdzisław Pieniowski (1916-2000) came to Mariefred with a Polish submarine during World War II. He stayed and married a Swedish woman and started a family in Sweden. The film is about the rootlessness of Exile.