This is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973. The Stockholm Syndrome is named after this incident.
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The people behind it
Torkel Petersson
Jan-Erik Olsson
Shanti Roney
Clark Olofsson
Tova Magnusson
Barbro
Melinda Kinnaman
Kicki
Johan Widerberg
Lasse
Niklas Falk
K-G Lönnroth
Göran Ragnerstam
Sten Thunander
Peter Wahlqvist
Bertil Liljeroth
Bengt Nilsson
Nisse
Peter Engman
Ronny
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