Per Åhlin has given life to many beloved characters over the years, perhaps most well-known is his illustration of Tage Danielsson's Christmas Eve classic about Karl-Bertil Jonsson, and films such as The Journey to Melonia and Dunderklumpen. But many of his works were never completed.

In the documentary In the Head of Per Åhlin, he talks about his attempts to create more animated films for adults.

- If you count together the failed projects that you have not done, it becomes easily depressing. Let's say that you spend one or two years on a project that doesn't get lost, and if you have six or seven, it will be a few years, says Per Åhlin.

The financiers withdrew

After the premiere of Hundhotellet in 2000, Per Åhlin and Hasse Alfredson began the production of Hoffmann's eyes, which would become an animated feature film.

After working with the project for a number of years with several fully illustrated scenes which together amounted to about 20 minutes, the project was closed down. This is according to Per Åhlin because the financiers withdrew when it came to which target group the film turned to.

- Hoffmann's eyes show on another side of what we have done. I also think it had become an opening for animated adult film in Sweden.

Associated with children's culture

Unlike many other countries, such as France, animation in Sweden is often associated with entertainment for children.

- Of course, I think that you should make good cartoons for children, but at the same time it would be forbidden to do animated for adults, I have had difficulty accepting.

In the head of Per Åhlin will now be broadcast on SVT Play on Sunday, and on November 15 at 20:00 at SVT2.