‘Black Crab’ Scribe Pelle Rådström Talks ‘Pressure Point,’ How ‘The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions’

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Annika Pham What are the limits of art, of freedom of expression in the case of neo-Nazis expressing anti-democratic views?

Can rehabilitation programs reduce crime? Those are some of the pressing and relevant questions raised by the limited series “Pressure Point” (“Smärtpunkten”), for which Swedish scribe and creator Pelle Rådström is in the running for the Nordic region’s biggest screenwriter award – the Nordic Series Script Award.

The three-part SVT series toplining David Dencik (“No Time to Die,” “The Chestnut Man”), Maria Sid (“All the Sins”), Martin Nick Alexandersson, Einar-Hugo Strömberg and Linus Gustafsson, is helmed by double Berlin Crystal Bear winner Sanna Lenken.

Art & Bob produces with REinvent handling sales. Famed for the Netflix thriller “Black Crab,” Rådström goes back in his series to true events that shook Sweden 26 years ago, when its legendary playwright Lars Norén and his producer Isa Stenberg staged the controversial play “7:3” in which the main characters were three long-term convicts, including two neo-Nazis.