

What Measures to Save a People?
On Herman Lundborg, head of the Swedish State Institute for Race Biology
2015-02-01
Sweden
59 minutes.
Overview
The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world’s first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to ’35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.
Year 2015
Studio Världsålder AB, SVT
Director Maja Hagerman
Crew Maja Hagerman (Director), Maja Hagerman (Writer), Claes Gabrielson (Director of Photography), Claes Gabrielson (Editor)
Popularity 0
Language svenska