Alba Film’s Teresa Alldén Behind the Netflix Hit Inside the Trustor Scandal

Inside the Trustor Scandal premiered globally on Netflix on August 5. The film quickly rose to number one on Netflix in Sweden and entered the global Top 10, while also receiving a very strong reception from Swedish critics.

The documentary takes on one of Sweden’s most mythologised financial scandals, and it contains what has long been considered the missing piece of the story: Joachim Posener in front of the camera.

For Teresa Alldén, the project has been a years-long pursuit of both access and trust:

I have been trying to reach Posener throughout my entire working life. To me that is the core of it – getting close to people and worlds that are otherwise closed, and bringing out stories we have not heard. That Inside the Trustor Scandal is now reaching a large audience outside Sweden as well proves that local stories can have a self-evident international relevance.

The production required several years of work and access to people who in some cases had avoided public life for close to three decades. The result is a film in which several of the key figures’ conflicting accounts meet in the same documentary for the first time.

From Netflix Success to the Next Chapter

Following the success of Inside the Trustor Scandal, Teresa Alldén and Anette Brantin are developing premium content for a Swedish and international market through their joint company Alba Film.

The focus is on strong ideas, unique access and character-driven storytelling – with projects that can move between documentary and fictional forms.

The international response to Inside the Trustor Scandal is also a sign of greater opportunities for domestic production:

We have incredibly strong stories in Sweden. The ambition with Alba Film is not to limit them to a Swedish audience, but to think bigger from the outset.

Inside the Trustor Scandal is now streaming on Netflix worldwide.