Ondskan (DVD)

Description: Director: Mikael Håfström / Actors: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström ... / Features of the DVD: PAL / Erik is expelled ... more

Ondskan (DVD) ... from school for fighting. He ends up at a private boarding school where the senior students control the young ones. Erik finds a friend in Pierre, his room mate. The story revolves around Erik who just wishes to be left alone and graduate. He doesn't listen to what the seniors have to say and they don't like it.

Newest Review: ... a hat full of domestic awards, capped by being Oscar nominated for best foreign film in 2003. It seems that brutal boarding ... more

... school life resonated a great deal with the arty film people and I must say well worth the plaudits for once. This is good stuff. And so the story. Well we all love a rebel with a cause, especially a handsome and smart one who enjoys a beating for his defiance. Erik (Andreas Wilson) is that kid, his James Dean looks and vengeful temperament getting him expelled from every school in Sweden, threatening his A-Levels and so university… In desperation, mum (Marie Richardson) has pawned some family heirlooms and packed...more

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	Ondskan ( Evil ) [DVD] [2005] Rating Suitable for 15 years and over, Last Update 09.12.2009 06:11	£ 23.99

Ondskan ( Evil ) [DVD] [2005]
Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,

Last Update 09.12.2009 06:11

£ 23.99

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Ondskan (DVD): Now we know why Sven (813 words)
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Anyone who has been to boarding school would probably not enjoy this award winning Swedish film, a rather painful examination of the sadistic behavior patterns of kids in the top public school system, this time in Sweden, widespread brutality and mental torture bringing back traumatic memories for all. With 85% of UK boarders living less than an hour away from their family home these places are rarely about getting an education. Based on Sweden’s most popular contemporary book by the same name,’ Evil’ is the recounting of the real life school days of Swedish writer Jan Guillou and his experience in the 1970s at ‘Solbaka’, an elite boarding school for Sweden’s ... Read the complete review

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