Smoke

Singer-songwriter Lee Hazelwood stars in and co-directs this hippie-era Swedish film about a group of aviation workers who are upset with their boss. Exactly what they want is never entirely clear, although in one scene the ring leader, Hazelwood, playing the eponymous character, demands that the boss make the same wage as the workers. Hazelwood and his comrades live in communal squalor in a farmhouse outside of a nondescript Swedish city. Posters of Karl Marx hang on the wall and dogs and lambs sleep with the hippies. The boss’ daughter tries to hang out with them, but Smoke can see that she’s just slumming, and not a true revolutionary. The boss himself is so upset...