Movies The Swedish film director exploited the boys for years

Fresh according to the book, a well-known Swedish film director Staffan Hildebrand has sexually abused young boys. The two men interviewed in the book, now adults, say they were raped by Hildebrand at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s.

The boys were 13 and 15 at the time and the exploitation was continuous. “After a while, it became a routine,” says one of the boys interviewed for the book according to the broadcaster SVT.

The boys also lived with the instructor for some time. The films were a way for the director to entice the boys into an exciting life.

Sexual book on exploitation G som i gärningsman was released on Thursday, and since then the case has been covered by several Swedish media outlets.

The case has received widespread attention in Sweden, as Staffan Hildebrand has been considered a key documenter in youth culture in the 1980s. He has portrayed young people and youth culture in his numerous films and TV shows, such as skaters, musicians, and young drug users.

In Finland, too, Hildebrand’s films and TV programs have been shown repeatedly in the 1970s and 1980s. For example, one of Hildebrand’s best-known films G is presented in our name Youth and madness. The film follows three teenage boys on the eve of adulthood in a world of rock and hashish. In the 1990s, Hildebrand also visited Finland to shoot a video series that raised Helsinki’s high school students to raise awareness of Europe.

One Hildebrand’s programs, called Boy from Bangkok, was shown on television in Finland in 1977. In a recent book, Hildebrand talks about the background of the program and how, after filming, she arranged the main character of the program, a 13-year-old Thai boy, with her in Sweden. The instructor had told his friends about the intention to adopt a boy who also started school in Sweden.

A few months later, however, Hildebrand flew the boy back to the Far East.

“It didn’t work and it was really a mistake,” Expressen writes the director stated the incident.

From the Swedish media Express has also interviewed one of Hildebrand’s victims. “He used to say that when a young person doesn’t know what he wants. She talked about sex between men and the Greek tradition where older men took care of younger ones from year to year, ”the man tells the newspaper.

In Born in 1946, Staffan Hildebrand has exceptionally been involved in the book and has admitted what happened. According to Gothenburg-Posten Hildebrand realized a long time ago that he was different.

“Relationships with men of the same age have never been interesting. There’s something about young boys that I can’t get anywhere else, ”Hildebrand says in the book.

In an interview with Expressen, Hildebrand says she didn’t feel wrong at the time, but now thinks otherwise. Here’s how Hildebrand answers the question:

“With current knowledge, metoon and others knowing… Of course it is wrong. She wasn’t mature enough to understand her sexuality at that age, but she was mature and developed, ”the director tells the magazine.

Hildebrandin the case has been commented on in Sweden by, among others, a columnist from Svenska Dagbladet Essy Klingberg. According to him, the time was second before, but it in no way removes the pain caused by Hildebrand. According to the columnist, Hildebrand’s comments are not enough either.

“Recognizing things is different than understanding them,” Klingberg writes.

The book is made by an author Sören Karlsson and the researcher Deanna Rauscher. “Hildebrand has said he sees the book as a reconciliation, although the victims do not want a reconciliation with him,” said Karlsson. says Dagens in Nyheter.