There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried to forget it, wrote screenplay after screenplay, but we always came back to those murders, and to telling the story about a part of Sweden that we never read about in newspapers, and that is populated by people whose thoughts and destinies rarely reaches beyond their village.
Acting
Non-professional locals bring terrifying authenticity.
Cinematography
Grey Swedish emptiness that suffocates.
Direction
Directors spent years haunted by the real case.
Director
Emil Larsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Directors Emil Larsson and Martin Jern are from the actual region; they cast local non-actors to capture the specific dialect and closed social dynamics of rural Scania.
The real 1998 case that inspired the film remains officially unsolved in terms of motive—the killers never explained why, which became the film's central void.
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