The documentary is written and directed by Martin Jönsson and Carl Pontus Hjorthén, with music by Ian Person, guitarist of former Swedish rock band The Soundtrack of Our Lives.

The film begins by showing similarities between the politics of the Swedish Social Democratic Party with prime minister Olof Palme, and the successful semi-amateur club IFK Göteborg where all players had regular jobs as cooks, plumbers and clerks besides being footballers.

Some of the players—such as Torbjörn Nilsson, Ruben Svensson, Dan Corneliusson and Glenn Hysén, alongside manager Sven-Göran Eriksson—also appear and get to tell their view of that period.

An extended 80-minute cut of the film was sneak-previewed at the Draken cinema in Gothenburg on 4 January 2011,[2] and on 1 April the general release 74-minute version started screening.

[3] The Last Proletarians of Football was released on DVD on 27 May 2011,[2] early DVDs shipped with a replica of the Hamburger SV pennant claiming they won the 1982 UEFA Cup.