Dagens Nyheter and journalist Matilda Voss Gustavsson published an article in the autumn of 2017 in which 18 women told about how they were sexually abused by Jean-Claude Arnault, also known as the cultural profile.
In the wake of the revelation, the Swedish Academy, to which Arnault had close connections, would go into a protracted crisis and a Nobel Prize in literature would freeze inside.
In The prize of silence, several of Arnault's victims talk about what they were exposed to.
Joel Karsberg, one of the producers behind the series, worked on the Netflix documentary Surviving R Kelly when the cultural profile scandal broke out in Sweden.
- This happened in Sweden, my home country that people see from the outside as a role model around issues of equality.
Since I had worked with these subjects for a long time, I felt that I had knowledge and commitment, he says.
A number of well-known names participate in the documentary, including Matilda Voss Gustavsson, Ebba Witt-Brattström, Jonas Gardell, Björn Wiman and Camilla Läckberg.
The prize of silence premieres on Viaplay on December 5.