Tore Wretman: kökspojken (2016)

The life story of the great Swedish chef, Tore Wretman (1916 - 2003) who revolutionized the dull Swedish cuisine, laying a platform for the next and next-next generation of chefs, winning medals in world championship och chefs, Bocuse d'Or. In his teens, Wretman failed totally in school, was regarded ineducable and expelled. He was the son of a poor single mother and a male relative, who had the money to pay his education, then said: Let him become a cook, thus he will never starve". Being a cook was in those days in Sweden with lowest respect and credibility. For five years he drudged as an intern in Stockholm and Paris, and after that he went to NYC, taking a course in Waldorf Astoria, graduating as number one. Five years later he bought his first restaurant in Stockholm, and after 15 years more he was the top chef in Sweden, owner of the four most prestigious restaurants, a well known celebrity and friend of royals, big shot business men, actors like Greta Garbo and Orson Welles.