103 minutes
9/14/2012
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
as Self (archive footage)
Lisbeth Palme
as Self
Lennart Geijer
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Bratt
as Self
Ingvar Carlsson
as Self
Mårten Palme
as Self
Tage Erlander
as Self (archive footage)
David Frost
as Self (archive footage)
Catharina Palme
as Self
Richard Guston
as Self
Olof Ruin
as Self
Lars Edelstam
as Self
Nikolai Bulganin
as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
as Self
Jan O. Karlsson
as Self
Vilgot Sjöman
as Self (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine
as Self
Francisco Franco
as Self
Henry Kissinger
as Self
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
as Self (archive footage)
Joakim Palme
as Self
Mattias Palme
as Self
Anna-Greta Leijon
as Self
Carl Bildt
as Self
Ulf Adelsohn
as Self
Kjell-Olof Feldt
as Self
Jörn Donner
as Self
Carl Johan De Geer
as Self
Roy Andersson
as Self
Jan Guillou
as Self
Christina Jutterström
as Self
Anette Kullenberg
as Self
Anders Ferm
as Self
Ingvar Boman
as Self
Mona Sahlin
as Self
Håkan Isacson
as Self (archive footage)
Tage Danielsson
as Self (archive footage)
Thorbjörn Fälldin
as Self (archive footage)
Claire Wikholm
as Self
Desmond Tutu
as Self
Anna Lindh
as 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