Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestA dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent.
Acting
Wollter's suffocated desperation in every clinical confession
Production
Brutalist Sweden as the coldest character in the room
Writing
Boye's poisoned love letter to trust itself
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Boye wrote this in 1940 Nazi-occupied Norway; Swedish TV buried it for forty years. Published her suicide note as final chapter.
Hans Abramson filmed the chemical sequences by dissolving actual sodium in water — the crew called it 'Kallocain's revenge' when burns hospitalized three.
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