Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance to inspect pipes. He is so obsessed about his girlfriend Ingrid that he arranges his own fake suicide so that he can check that she mourns his death properly. With a set of cameras in their house he can follow every step she takes.
Acting
Lena Endre's layered performance—what's she really feeling?
Direction
Hobert's cold eye makes voyeurism feel institutional.
Cinematography
Camera-within-camera shots that implicate you, viewer.
Director
Richard Hobert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Sweden's answer to the '90s techno-thriller boom, but Hobert rejected Hollywood pacing for something more Bergman-meets-De Palma.
The pipe inspection camera was real Swedish tech; Hobert got access by promising the company sympathetic portrayal. They did not get sympathetic portrayal.
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