40 years ago, a woman was found dismembered under a highway in Stockholm. It was the beginning of what would become Sweden's strangest and most controversial legal process: the Catrine da Costa case. The two doctors Teet Härm and Thomas Allgén were identified as guilty of the dismemberment. But how did the legal system actually come to the conclusion that they were guilty?
June 27th, 1945. The norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst travels to Stockholm. According to witnesses, he's going to "sort something out", and someone will be pale by the results. A day later he is found dead on a stairwell, shot in the head with his own gun. Despite mysterious circumstances, the police quickly concludes with suicide, and the case is dismissed. Case files are classified, and friends and family who ask questions are threatened.In this film, the investigation is resumed 68 years later. Through secret documents and old witness reports, Holst's last 24 hours alive are reconstructed, to find out what really happened.
Jovan Rajs is a Serbian/Swedish Professor Emeritus of Forensics. During WWII he was deported in 1944 to the Nazi KZ Bergen-Belsen. Later he studied at the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. In 1968 he and his wife Dina and their two children moved to Sweden.
By browsing this website, you accept our cookies policy.