A film about the legendary Gothenburg band UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS that was reunited in the summer of 2018

This is a film about a bunch of messy and derailed 25-year-olds who, despite everything, manage to establish themselves and break with expectations and go their own way. With music as their lifeline.

Today, Union Carbide Productions must be seen as a cult band from Gothenburg’s more affluent suburbs. Few bands in the late eighties had the opportunity to tour abroad, playing the Marquee club in London and CBGB’s in New York.

In THE GOLDEN AGE, we follow the story from beginning to end. What happened to this messy band that, according to singer Ebbot Lundberg, ”went off the rails before anything really happened” and that, according to guitarist Björn Olsson, treated the tours like ”skiing trips, only the skis had been replaced by guitars”.

One could also see the film as a time capsule filled with fantastic archives from the late eighties and early nineties, a time that was in many ways a turning point.

In 2017, the band reunites and this time draws a large audience, but perhaps the reunion is above all a way to heal old wounds and apologise for everything that went wrong thirty years ago?

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Director: Hans-Erik Therus

Producer: Hjalmar Palmgren