Magnus von Horn
The Here After
6.5 
7.0When 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.
- Director: Magnus von Horn
- Main Cast: Mats Blomgren, Ulrik Munther
- Cinematography: Lukasz Zal
- Screenplay: Magnus von Horn
Year: 2015
Original Title: Efterskalv
Cinema Premiere: March 11, 2016
Foreign Reviews
15 foreign reviews of The Here After (2015)
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8.3 / 10
Translated from swedish: Fascinatingly uncomfortable and impressively bold
- Jan SöderqvistSwedish: svd.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: A quiet yet deeply unsettling and certainly quite typical Swedish kitchen-sink drama about terrible events and their aftermath. It takes a while before John's story finds its rhythm, but the film still manages to move you from the very beginning all the way to its dramatic conclusion.
- Jonna VanhataloSwedish: moviezine.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: "The Here After" shakes you to the core and deeply moves you in its portrayal of how a young person gets a second chance from the system, but hardly from the people around him.
- Jan-Olov AnderssonSwedish: aftonbladet.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: In "The Here After", the incomprehensible collides with the everyday, and the inhuman with the deeply human.
- Helena LindbladSwedish: dn.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: The plot unfolds in an almost thriller-like manner. Details and emotions are carefully doled out, keeping the thread of suspense gently taut throughout. At the same time, the major questions of guilt, atonement, and forgiveness are left relatively open-ended. They remain there, vulnerably exposed, continuing to grind away through one's consciousness even after the film has ended.
- Maria BranderSwedish: expressen.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Debut film with perfect pitch
- Camilla LarssonSwedish: sydsvenskan.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: The entire drama stays with you long after it's over, and this is a film that should be shown in schools. There are many issues to grapple with here, and the ending allows for great discussions about many things, not least moral and philosophical questions about life. There's something genuinely authentic and real in how Magnus von Horn portrays people and their fragility and sorrow.
- Björn G StenbergSwedish: unt.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: When the film reaches its climax, I'm glued to my seat, and when the credits roll, I feel wonderfully shaken up.
- Eric DiedrichsSwedish: filmtopp.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: It's a painful and believable portrayal of a single parent teetering on the edge of breakdown, but who knows that falling apart isn't an option. If he does, the family will go under.
- Simon RotheliusSwedish: arbetet.se »
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6.3 / 10
Translated from swedish: It's a film to be admired from a distance. You can feel the chill in something that's technically unsettling – like when people turn on other people. Maybe we're just supposed to be shocked by seeing violence, as if we haven't seen beatings in documentaries, on the news, all this brutality in the grainy footage from surveillance cameras.
- Fredrik FyhrSwedish: fredrikfyhr.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: Despite its high ambitions, "The Here After" won't draw any audience worth talking about.
- Mats JohnsonSwedish: gp.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: Sure, it's refreshing to have filmmakers who aren't afraid of silence, but it's admittedly a difficult balancing act. The risk is always that the stillness turns into a kind of apathy that rubs off on the audience. This is a borderline case.
- Fredrik SahlinSwedish: svt.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: Ulrik Munther has received good reviews at festivals for his role as a young killer who returns home to his old school and his village. I think the father, played by Mats Blomgren, is even better, but unfortunately the smaller roles end up being rather one-dimensional.
- Björn JanssonSwedish: sverigesradio.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: The film addresses an important topic, or actually several important topics. What I'm primarily thinking about is how we as a society care for people after a tragedy has occurred. What is being done to help someone who has committed a serious crime return to society, and what is being done to help those who have been harmed and victimized by the crime cope with facing the perpetrator? Should they even have to face the perpetrator at all?
- Rosemari SödergrenSwedish: kulturbloggen.com »
Box Office
The Here After has earned a total of 97 699 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
Other films by Magnus von Horn
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⏱️ 123 min
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1. Nöjesguiden
Translated from swedish: There are no simple answers, after all. Director and screenwriter Magnus von Horn embraces this and manages to create a drama-thriller that's as nerve-wracking as it is quietly captivating. Despite tough competition, this could be the year's strongest Swedish feature film debut.
- Sebastian Lindvall
Swedish: ng.se »