The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.
Acting
Kjellman's desperate optimism against Peter Haber's magnificent bastard energy.
Writing
Prison bureaucracy as cosmic joke, no punchline provided.
Director
Daniel Lind Lagerlöf
Björn Kjellman
Reine
Peter Haber
Jakobsson
Viveka Seldahl
Hillevi
Thomas Hanzon
Ekman
Oliver Loftéen
Andrej
Göran Ragnerstam
Heikki
Michael Nyqvist
Diego
Shanti Roney
Glenn
Lamine Dieng
Kostas
Magnus Krepper
Holmlund
Fyr Thorvald Strömberg
Rolle
Jan Mybrand
Ralf
Lena B. Eriksson
Employment officer
Zhao Lixin
Cheng (as Li-Xin Zhao)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kumla was Sweden's only super-max prison; filming there required actual inmate cooperation. The verisimilitude is unnerving.
Lind Lagerlöf cited Kafka's 'The Trial' as direct influence—explains why Reine's guilt is assumed before any crime.
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