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Evil (2003)
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This competently acted and directed Swedish school drama brings to mind Franc Roddam's 1983 film The Lords of Discipline. Andreas Wilson plays unruly teenager Erik, who is sent by his mother to a strict boarding school — as much to avoid his stepfather's savage beatings as to improve his behaviour. There he finds an institution run by a cadre of sadistic prefects whose violent bullying is all but ignored by the staff. Wilson is more than serviceable as the plucky teen who must stand up both for himself and his friend Pierre (Henrik Lundstrom), and director Mikael Hafstrom delivers some savage fist-fights as well as an unforgettably unpleasant scene involving a bucket of human excrement. But, in the end, Evil doesn't reveal much apart from restating the somewhat obvious fact that for many of us our school days are anything but the happiest of our lives. AS
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Running time
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108mins
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Country of origin
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Swe / Den
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Genre
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Period Drama
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Alternate title
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Ondskan
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Original language
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Swedish
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Screenplay
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Mikael Hafstrom, Hans Gunnarsson, from the novel Ondskan by Jan Guillou
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Theatrical distributor
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Metrodome
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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UK cinema release date
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June 2005
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Subtitling information
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In Swedish with subtitles
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| Academy 2003 |
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