Six friends, one skeleton, zero alibis — Swedish noir so tense you'll forget it's sunny.
Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.
Direction
Gentele traps seven people in one room and makes it suffocating.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness — every pleasantry hides a dagger.
Acting
Malmsten's twitchy fragility vs. Palme's smug menace — chef's kiss.
Director
Göran Gentele
Birger Malmsten
Harry Werner
Gunnel Broström
Marguerite
Margareta Fahlén
Eva Winning
Ulf Palme
Rickard
Curt Masreliez
Raoul Kessler
Jan Molander
Georg
Yngve Nordwall
Dr. Bergqvist
Wiktor Andersson
Albin the gardener
Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad
Stina
Gull Natorp
Maid
Agda Helin
Customer in furniture store
Ernst Brunman
Customer in furniture store
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-WWII Swedish cinema grappled with collective guilt; this adapts a French play but feels distinctly Nordic in its repressed emotional violence.
Göran Gentele later became director of the Royal Swedish Opera — his theatrical blocking here is no accident, every character positioned like chess pieces.
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