Evil (2003 film)
Evil Swedish Ondskan is a 2003 Swedish drama film directed by Mikael Hfstrm, based on Jan Guillous semiautobiographical novel with the same name from 1981, and starring Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundstrm and Gustaf Skarsgrd. The film is set in a private boarding school in the 1950s with institutional violence as its theme.
Erik Ponti, a 15yearold boy, lives with his mother and sadistic stepfather in Stockholm. At home, his stepfather beats him every day after dinner. His docile mother ignores her husbands sadistic nature and allows the violence to proceed. At school, Erik is violent and frequently engages in fights, as a result of his violent upbringing. After a particularly vicious fight, Erik is expelled. The headmaster labels him vicious and accuses him of being pure evil. In an attempt to provide her son with a fresh start he sorely needs, his mother sells of some of her possessions and sends Erik to a boarding school.Upon arriving in Stjrnsberg, realising the boarding school is his last chance at reaching Sixth Form, Erik attempts to forgo his violent tendencies. At the prestigious school twelve members of the Sixth Form form a Students Council. They exercise a sadistic rule over the school and punish disobeying students physically and psychologically. When Erik refuses to obey the ludicrous requests of two councilmen, Silverhielm and Dahlen, he becomes the target of relentless bullying. His refusal to demean himself by obeying their humiliating punishments lands him a number of weekend detentions. Erik befriends his intellectual roommate Pierre, who flies below the radar in order to avoid bullying. ........
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