Evil is a 2003 Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 September 2003, directed by Mikael Håfström, based on Jan Guillou's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name from 1981, and starring Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström and Gustaf Skarsgård. The film is set in a private boarding school in the late-1950s with institutional violence as its theme.
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Görvälns Castle north of Stockholm served as the school building's exterior.
Jan Mikael Håfström is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2003 film Evil, and the movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story 1408.
Mikael Håfström