01/10/2003

Mikael Håfström’s film Evil has been selected by a committee of Swedish film professionals to represent Sweden in the competition for the Best Foreign Film at the 2004 Oscars.

Adapted for the screen by Håfström and Hans Gunnarsson from Jan Guillou’s autobiographical novel, Evil is about bullying in a Swedish boarding school in the 1950s.
Evil is produced by Moviola Film & TV with support from Nordisk Film, TV4, the Swedish and Danish Film Institutes and Nordisk Film & TV Fund. It has just been released in Sweden by Columbia Tri Star, on September 26, and it has had a fantastic opening, with 108,000 tickets sold at 95 screens.
The film had its premiere at the last Toronto Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI prize and Best Actor prize for Andreas Wilson at the Viareggio Film Festival. The film is sold by Nordisk Film International Sales.