What if what you think is real, what you’ve seen on old TV reels and in books, was all a charade? What if a major sporting even was faked?

That’s the premise of Konspiration 58, a Swedish black comedy that imagines the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden was completely fabricated on television and radio as a test of the effectiveness of televised propaganda. In the tradition of “The War of the Worlds,” Konspiration 58 originally aired on Swedish TV without a warning that it was all fictional.