Kompositören Johnny Bodes epitet var många och under sin samtid kallades han bland annat opportunist, nazistpajas, kommunist, bedragare och mytoman. Filmarna Bo Sjökvist och Bengt Löfgren ger sig i kast med att försöka porträttera Johnny Bode och hans geni och finner i honom en hänsynslös och ansvarslös rumlare, men också en ensam människa som blev avvisad av sin familj, internaliserad på mentalsjukhus och tvångssteriliserad.
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Johnny Bode (1912-1983) was very successful in Sweden and also in Western Europe. Yet he is today almost completely forgotten. Why? His life was so overwhelming, glamorous, fast and bizarre. So un-Swedish. This film puts Johnny Bode's life story in a sociological perspective and presents a vivid image of the odd person behind the many headlines. He became fascinated by the nazism. Was arrested by the Gestapo and detained at Grini concentration camp in Norway. For five weeks. After the war he moved to East Berlin and proclaimed himself a dear friend of the GDR. Later he was deported and returned to Sweden. A time of fencing and small crimes followed. Escaped to Brussels at first and later Vienna. He was, as Juan Delgada, hired by the Vienna Opera to create new operettas. And was very successful. Johnny Bode died exhausted alone and abandoned in Malmö during the summer of 1983.
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