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This subtle yet deeply critical cinema direct documentary from Swedish enfant terrible Måns Månsson provides candid glimpses of Anders Björck, the Swedish Minister of Defense. Without commenting directly on the proceedings (the black-and-white film omits a narrator and interviews) Månsson suggests that Björck's 400-year-old position is an empty-headed and meaningless one, consisting as it does of sitting around a huge desk, having lunch with the crème-de-la crème, and cutting ribbons at ceremonies. Most troublingly, as Månsson reminds his audience, the job continues to eat up vast amounts of money from ordinary taxpayers - and to what end?