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The Here After

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6.4/10 • 39

2015-01-201h 42m

Drama

When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local community his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven.

Directors
Magnus von Horn
Writters
Magnus von Horn
Editors
Magnus von Horn, Agnieszka Glińska

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  1. Ulrik Munther

    Ulrik Munther

    John

  2. Loa Ek

    Loa Ek

    Malin

  3. Mats Blomgren

    Mats Blomgren

    Martin

  4. Ellen Jelinek

    Ellen Jelinek

    Bea

  5. Felix Göransson

    Felix Göransson

    Korv-Hannes

  6. Stefan Cronwall

    Stefan Cronwall

    Grannen

  7. Wiesław Komasa

    Wiesław Komasa

    Grandfather

  8. Inger Nilsson

    Inger Nilsson

    Principal

  9. Jan-Erik Olsson

    Jan-Erik Olsson

    Erik

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CinemaSerf

May 25, 2025

7/10

Auteur Magnus von Horn has created something that is quite deeply troubling to watch here as we follow the struggles of the young “John” (Ulrik Munther) as he returns home after a period of incarceration. Whilst we are uncertain as to quite what he did, we do know that he was locked up for two years and that his return home and to school is being treated with pretty universal disdain by his small, tightly-knit, community. What now ensues is a delicately presented evaluation of mob rule. Initially using more psychological tools like shunning before that particular pot over-boils and heads inevitably towards more extreme and dangerous behaviour. Munther delivers a really quite poignant performance here as does Mats Blomgren as his distraught and increasingly conflicted father “Martin” and the assembled supporting cast who offer up an effective degree of animus and toxicity that resonates more as the story asks questions that we know cannot be answered straightforwardly by anyone. I did wonder, on the plausibility front, if the absence of the police or other authorities to keep an eye on this young man either for the protection of himself or his community didn’t quite ring true, but perhaps their omission from the thrust of the story managed to further illustrate just how brutal even the most ostensibly civilised can be when their wagons get circled. Not an easy watch, nor a conclusive one, but worth an hour and an half.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Swedish
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
child murdermobbingcoming of age