Beyond (2010 film)

2010 Swedish film

Beyond

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Pernilla August
Screenplay by| Pernilla August
Lolita Ray
Story by| Susanna Alakoski
Produced by| Helena Danielsson
Ralf Karlsson
Starring| Noomi Rapace
Ola Rapace
Tehilla Blad
Outi Mäenpää
Ville Virtanen
Cinematography| Erik Molberg Hansen
Edited by| Åsa Mossberg
Music by| Magnus Jarlbo
Sebastian Öberg

Production
company

Drakfilm Produktion

Distributed by| Nordisk Film

Release date

* 6 September 2010 (2010-09-06) (Venice Film Festival)

Running time

| 92 minutes
Country| Sweden
Languages| Swedish
Finnish

Beyond is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Pernilla August, starring Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace, Tehilla Blad, Outi Mäenpää and Ville Virtanen. The original Swedish title is Svinalängorna, which means "The swine rows" and refers to the housing project where parts of the story are set. The film is based on the novel with the same name by Susanna Alakoski. It was shown at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on 6 September 2010 and got the International Critic's Week Award.[1][2]

The Swedish Film Institute submitted Beyond for a 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination,[3][4] but it did not make the final shortlist.[5]

## Cast

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* Noomi Rapace as Leena
* Tehilla Blad as Young Leena
* Ola Rapace as Johan
* Outi Mäenpää as Aili
* Ville Virtanen as Kimmo
* Rasmus Troedsson as Sten
* Alpha Blad as Marja
* Junior Blad as Sakari
* Selma Cuba as Flisan

## Plot

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On Saint Lucia's day, the happy life of a young Swedish family is disturbed by an unexpected phone call. Leena learns that her mother, with whom she's been broken for years, is dying and wants to say goodbye. Johan understands only up to a certain point the disturbance of his wife and, despite the many resistances, convinces her to leave with the two little girls to reach their unknown grandmother, hospitalized at 600 km away.

The return to Ystad awakens in Leena memories of a childhood full of pain. The parents, immigrants from Finland, were a poor but also close-knit couple until the alcohol had taken over, weighing not so much on little Leena, already very strong and mature despite her young age, as on her little brother Sakari.

Sakari, as revealed only in the last dramatic dialogue between Leena and his mother, was taken from the family by the social services and entrusted to an orphanage. He died years later, forgotten, of an overdose. Leena has always borne remorse with her for not having done enough for her brother, but above all does not forgive her parents for having lost a child like that, almost uninterested in it.

Returning from the hospital, still upset, the woman first inexplicably yells at her daughters, then lashes out at her husband in an irrational impetus that is very similar to the many scenes of violence experienced by a spectator when she was a child. Known as the mother's death, she melts into a liberating cry, returns to herself and embraces her patient and understanding husband and her beloved daughters.

## See also

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* List of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
* List of Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

## References

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1. ^ Björling, Sanna (22 July 2010). "Svinalängorna till Venedig". Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
2. ^ "SIC - International Critics' Week". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
3. ^ "Pernilla August's Beyond to be Sweden's Foreign Language Oscar entry". Retrieved 13 September 2011.
4. ^ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
5. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar". Retrieved 2012-01-19.

## External links

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* Beyond at IMDb
* Beyond at the Swedish Film Institute Database

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The Nordic Council Film Prize

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* Manslaughter (2005)
* Zozo (2006)
* The Art of Crying (2007)
* You, the Living (2008)
* Antichrist (2009)
* Submarino (2010)
* Beyond (2011)
* Play (2012)
* The Hunt (2013)
* Of Horses and Men (2014)
* Virgin Mountain (2015)
* Louder Than Bombs (2016)
* Little Wing (2017)
* Woman at War (2018)
* Queen of Hearts (2019)
* Beware of Children (2020)
* Flee (2021)
* Lamb (2022)
* Empire (2023)

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Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1956–1975|

* The Staffan Stolle Story (1956)
* The Seventh Seal (1957)
* The Magician (1958)
* No Award (1959)
* The Virgin Spring (1960)
* Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
* The Mistress (1962)
* The Silence (1963)
* Raven's End (1964)
* Dear John (1965)
* Persona (1966)
* Here Is Your Life (1967)
* Shame (1968)
* Ådalen 31 (1969)
* A Swedish Love Story (1970)
* The Emigrants (1971)
* The New Land (1972)
* No Award (1973)
* No Award (1974)
* No Award (1975)

1976–2000|

* City of My Dreams (1976)
* The Man on the Roof (1977)
* No Award (1978)
* A Respectable Life (1979)
* Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1980)
* Children's Island (1981)
* Flight of the Eagle (1982)
* Fanny and Alexander (1983)
* Åke and His World (1984)
* Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (1985)
* The Sacrifice (1986)
* Hip hip hurra! (1987)
* No Award (1988)
* The Women on the Roof (1989)
* Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
* The Ox (1991)
* House of Angels (1992)
* The Slingshot (1993)
* The Last Dance (1994)
* All Things Fair (1995)
* Jerusalem (1996)
* Tic Tac (1997)
* Show Me Love (1998)
* Under the Sun (1999)
* Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

2001–present|

* Jalla! Jalla! (2001)
* Lilya 4-ever (2002)
* Evil (2003)
* As It Is in Heaven (2004)
* Zozo (2005)
* Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
* You, the Living (2007)
* Everlasting Moments (2008)
* Involuntary (2009)
* Simple Simon (2010)
* Beyond (2011)
* The Hypnotist (2012)
* Eat Sleep Die (2013)
* Force Majeure (2014)
* A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015)
* A Man Called Ove (2016)
* The Square (2017)
* Border (2018)
* And Then We Danced (2019)
* Charter (2020)
* Tigers (2021)
* Boy from Heaven (2022)
* Opponent (2023)
* The Last Journey (2024)

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