As We're Told (2017)
Overview
"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office employee when asked how the country’s most unpopular government agency works. And that’s not all: in this creative documentary, case workers, receptionists and psychologists reveal how the Swedish employment system is failing. They complain about inadequate software and mystifying error messages, excessive caseloads and demoralizing results—on average, each case worker helps just 10 people find work each year, and only one in 10 clients will find a new job. To assure the anonymity of the interviewees, they're all represented by cardboard puppets. Thanks to visible puppeteers, expressive eyes and recognizable gestures, these puppets quickly take on the appearance of real people. The result is a fascinating, comical and artistic study of human strategies to get along in an irrational bureaucracy.
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | sv |
Popularity | 0.368 |
Directed By
Erik Holmström
Fredrik Wenzel
Crew
Jan Alvermark
Fredrik Wenzel
Erik Holmström
Erik Holmström
Hedvig Lundgren
Fredrik Wenzel
Fredrik Wenzel
TOP CAST
Leif Andrée
(voice)
Henrik Dorsin
(voice)
Maria Kulle
(voice)
David Rangborg
(voice)
Anna Takanen
(voice)