Did you know that on average a 1950's Swedish housewife walked the equivalent distance from Sweden to Congo each year whilst carrying out her kitchen chores, and that by simply organizing herself along assembly line principles she could significantly reduce this amount? Kitchen Stories gently lampoons this type of critical thinking by post-war organizations looking to science as the solution to everything. Part satire on social control and part humorous fable about friendship, this film by director Bent Hamer offers a distinctly absurdist vision of the aesthetics and ideologies of the 1950's. 95 minutes. In Swedish with English subtitles.