When Pernilla August applied to acting school and was asked why she wanted to act in theatre, she had a simple answer: to change the world. Since the has she been awarded a Palme d'Or in Cannes for one of her 70:th film roles.
There is something that is unresolved, and it is to seek answers to any-kind of question that pops up in your mind. And that is how Pleijel writes. And If she knew the answer in advance, then would it be any point in writing
Once Märta Tikkanen's four children and attention-demanding husband had fallen asleep, she sat down at the typewriter and created the stories that touch on the most delicate points of life and human beings.
What rubs, disturbs and irritates gets Ann-Sofie Back going. She is one of our biggest contemporary fashion designers and in this program she talks about the horror of feeling comfortable, among other things.
When director Björn Runge looks back on his professional career, he likes to use Samuel Becket's words: Try again. Fail again. Fail better. That way of looking at his work has taken him to Golden Globe parties.
If it weren't for a teacher in elementary school who let Ingegerd Råman draw and paint instead of reading and writing, she probably wouldn't have become one of our foremost designers of glass and ceramics.
What is it that has made the photographer Anders Petersen the foremost portrayer of people's longing of our time? In this program he tells how it all started and how it went from there.
