Something Happened (film)

Something Happened Swedish Ngonting har hnt is a Swedish film directed by Roy Andersson. The film was conceived as an educational film about AIDS, but raised controversy and was withdrawn. The film claims that HIV was developed in American military laboratories, and that its wellestablished African origin is a coverup conspiracy by the Americans. Today the film is regarded as a significant step in the development of the style seen in the directors later and more acclaimed films.

The film introduces what would become the directors signature style, with static camera and long takes featuring handpicked amateur actors in grim makeup. The style had been hinted at in Giliap and was developed further in Anderssons commercials, later to be even more refined in the feature films Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living.In the film, Andersson strongly criticises the widespread theory of HIVs origin in Africa. Included are scenes featuring scientists promoting this theory in ways which make them appear as incompetent and racist, and the theory highly unlikely. Andersson instead suggests that the virus had its origin in American military laboratories, and that the African origin is a part of a conspiracy by the Americans. The theory the film supports was later revealed to be an invention by the East German security service Stasi, with the intention to discredit the western world. ........

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