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  Time-Bomb  
  Sweden, 2005, 17:45 min, 35 mm, colour, 1:1.85  
  Director: Pernilla August  
     
     
  “Time-Bomb”, the unexploded bomb waiting to go off, reflects the fear of the time in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself crushed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears.  

 
  Cast Jacob Ericksson, Angela Kovacs, Sanna Ekman
Magnus Walhberg, Asta August
  Director Pernilla August
  Producer Freddy Olsson
  Screenplay Cilla Neuman
  Director of photography Anders Bohman
  Focus puller Lasse Karlsson
  Loader Philip Wachtmeister da Silva
  Gaffer Bengt Steiner
  Gaffer assistant Anton Öhrstrand
  Grip Martin Bergenström
  Production design Peter Bävman
  Props/ costume Lotta Wihl
  Make up Elizabeth Bukkehave
  Costume assistant Maria Vieweg
  Props assistent Git Johansson
  Carpenter Stephan Malmberg
  Painter Elna Bengtsson
  Sound/ sound design Jan Alvemark
  Sound/ sound mix Owe Svensson /Studio 24
  Editor Dominika Daubenbüchel
  Music Jan Wallgren
  Location manager China Åhlander
  1st assistant director - continuity Reuben Sletten
  Extras Anja Schmidt
  Location assistent Carlos Ravstam
  2nd assistent director Anna Juhlin Olsson
  Still photographs Charlie Drevstam, Ralph Nyqvist
  Ystad Studios Charlotte Wängerud, Ulf Bruxe, Doris Möller
  Laboratory Digital Film Lab Copenhagen
  Post production coordinator Peller Folmer
  Grader Norman Nisbet
  Digital grader Claus Greffel
  Video to film Jimmi Berger
  Developing Jens Kruse
     
  Special thanks Marek Wieser, Dunkers kulturhus, Falck Security, Fly me & Falcon Air, Hilton Malmö City, Intra Group, Malmö Sturup Airport, Mercedes Benz, Ystad lasarett.
     
 

Produced by Bokomotiv - De Geer & Olsson AB with support from Swedish Film Institute/ film commissioner Ann-Marie Söhrman Fermelin and SVT Drama/ Daniel Alfredsson.

 
 

“Time-Bomb”, the unexploded bomb waiting to go off, reflects the fear of the time in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself crushed between the pressures
of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears.

Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today fear has other faces. “Time-Bomb” examines a man pressured to the extreme by the current, unpredictable evil that may strike anywhere and at anytime. How does someone in the politicians’ position handle the terrorist threat when he must also deal with the threat of losing political power, position and strength?

And how, furthermore, does he manage to overcome the everyday anxieties of ageing, decay and death?

“Time-Bomb” mirrors how the power-elite, constituted by seemingly strong men, toil to keep the game going and in doing so keep the fear distant. Our politician is one such silent, resolute man who devotes great energy and effort to guarding how others behave. A man who himself will never risk doing wrong for fear of exposure. His great support is his wife but the consequences of his spiralling, intangible fears, ultimately prove fatal to their marriage.