In 1929 the modernistic literary group "Fem unga" (The five young ones) published a short story anthology. One of them described it as "a fire in the old and moist literary hay-stack". Two years later the group took on the film medium and produced an avant-garde portrait of Stockholm, Gamla stan [The Old Town]. It was hardly a success among critics, accused of having too many crooked angles and of being too Soviet in its montage. Nevertheless, the film has become a Swedish short film classic.