The Here After

2015 1h 42m SV

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★6.2TMDB · 50

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Synopsis

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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.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Ulrik Munther
John
Mats Blomgren
Martin
Alexander Norgren
Filip
Wiesław Komasa
Grandfather
Loa Ek
Malin
Ellen Jelinek
Bea
Oliver Heilmann
Kim
Felix Göransson
Hampus

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Magnus von Horn
Writers: Magnus von Horn
Languages: Swedish
Countries: France, Poland, Sweden

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ERA

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Released 11 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: France, Poland, Sweden.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Magnus von Horn, shot by Łukasz Żal. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Agnieszka Glińska shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Ulrik Munther and Mats Blomgren and Alexander Norgren carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt4150494 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Magnus von Horn directs. Łukasz Żal behind the camera. Agnieszka Glińska cuts. Produced in France, Poland, Sweden. Dialogue in Swedish.

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1Released 11 years ago.
2International production across 3 countries: France, Poland, Sweden.
3Directed by Magnus von Horn, shot by Łukasz Żal. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Agnieszka Glińska shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Ulrik Munther and Mats Blomgren and Alexander Norgren carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt4150494 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Łukasz Żal
Editing: Agnieszka Glińska
Production design: Jagna Dobesz
Costume design: Anna-Karin Cameron
Makeup / hair: Celia Englund
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: SV
IMDB: The Here After (2015)

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CinemaSerf2025-05-25
★ 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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