CALL GIRL

Sweden, 2012, 140 minutes, Colour.
Sofia Karmyr, Simon J.Berger, Pernilla August.
Directed by Mikael Marcimain.


While this film offers matters of interest for international audiences, is so specifically Swedish, with situations from the 1970s, political elections, political corruption, that it is a film for the home audience while international audiences might observe.

While the setting for the film is the 1970s into the 1980s, audiences will be able to parallel similar political situations and corruption from their own experiences, from their own countries.

The Wikipedia entry is succinct.

� The story is a fictionalised version of events based on the so-called Bordellhärvan political scandal of 1970s Sweden which linked several prominent politicians to a prostitution ring that included underage girls.
Set against the backdrop of the 1976 election, the story is centred on delinquent teenager Iris (Sofia Karemyr), who is sent to live in a juvenile home. She meets Sonja (Josefin Asplund) there and the two regularly slip away for adventures in the city. Together they are recruited to the prostitution ring operated by Dagmar Glans (Pernilla August), a madam well-known to the authorities. Dagmar's clients are mostly rich and powerful men, including senior politicians of the day. She becomes the subject of a police investigation led by a young vice officer, John Sandberg (Simon J. Berger). Sandberg soon discovers Glans has powerful clients but also finds his investigation hampered by his superiors and his life threatened by sinister figures. Police break up the prostitution ring but the powerful clients avoid being named in the scandal and Dagmar's trial concludes with her receiving a suspended sentence before Iris can testify about being an underage prostitute. In the aftermath of the trial, Sandberg is killed in a hit and run incident and his report into the affair is classified by the newly elected government. The film ends with Iris running away from the juvenile home, her ultimate fate ambiguous.�