







THE HERE AFTER
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Screenwriter
- Director of photography
- Protagonist
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound Design
- Production Design
- Costume Design
Director's comment
I came up with the idea for ‘The Here After’ when I was preparing for my exam film, ‘Without Snow’ at the Polish film school in Lodz. I was reading documents from police investigations of crimes committed by teenagers. Among these documents I came across a story that particularly moved me: a fifteen year old boy had killed his girlfriend, because he couldn’t stand the fact that she had fallen in love with someone else. In-between the lines of his confession I felt that behind the awful act there was actually a shy, young boy. He admitted to the crime but had no idea how he could actually have done something so horrifying. He was frightened, unhappily in love and tried to make amends for his crime while not being emotionally prepared for it at all. That was the inspiration for our film.To me, the essence of ‘The Here After” is the story of a boy who after having committed murder and served his punishment is released back into society when he is still a child. He wants to move on but the people surrounding him are unable to let him do so. It's a tale about emotionally disconnected people. A quiet, dormant illness present in society and that has been passed down from generation to generation in the protagonist’s family. Finally it found an outlet in the killing of a young girl. Everyone carries a blame inside, but admitting to it would mean taking on a responsibility which cannot be avoided; a failure, which cannot be washed off.
Cast & Crew
Magnus von HornMariusz Wlodarski, Madeleine Ekman
Magnus von Horn
Łukasz Żal
Loa Ek (Malin), Wieslaw Komasa (grandfather), Ulrik Munther (John), Mats Blomgren (Martin)
Agnieszka Glinska
Michal Robaczewski
Jagna Dobesz, Henrik Ryhlander
Anna-Karin Cameron