Evil (2003 film)

Evil
Region 1 DVD cover
Directed byMikael Håfström
Screenplay byHans Gunnarsson
Mikael Håfström
Based onEvil
by Jan Guillou
Produced byIngemar Leijonborg
Hans Lönnerheden
StarringAndreas Wilson
Henrik Lundström
Gustaf Skarsgård
CinematographyPeter Mokrosinski
Edited byDarek Hodor
Music byFrancis Shaw
Production
company
Moviola
Distributed byColumbia TriStar
Release dates
  • 16 May 2003 (2003-05-16) (Cannes)
  • 26 September 2003 (2003-09-26) (Sweden)
Running time
113 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
Budget$3,000,000
Box office$12,469,000

Evil (Swedish: Ondskan) is a 2003 Swedish teen drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 September 2003,[1] directed by Mikael Håfström, based on Jan Guillou's semi-autobiographical novel of the same title[2] from 1981, and starring Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström and Gustaf Skarsgård. The film is set in a private boarding school in the late-1950s with institutional violence as its theme.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards. It won three Swedish Guldbagge Awards including Best Film.

  1. ^ "Ondskan" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Database. 26 September 2003. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. ^ Wilhelmson, Markus (24 February 2004). "Min son ljuger om Ondskan" (in Swedish). Expressen. Archived from the original on 30 July 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2003.