Beneath the Surface

1997 Drama

In this fact-based Swedish movie, 23-year-old Stockholm junkie Sandra (Johanna Sallstrom) nearly dies from an overdose and checks into a rehab home, unaware that her drug pusher roommate Roffe (Mikael Persbrandt) is plying drugs on her 18-year-old sister Jannika (Tove Appelqvist) and forcing her into prostitution. Sandra soon leaves rehab in order to save sis -- while flashbacks reveal the childhood influences they experienced with their now-divorced upper-class father and alcoholic mother.

Director: Daniel Fridell

Starring: Johanna Sallstrom, Tove Appelqvist, Mikael Persbrandt, Jens Hulten, Elisabeth von Gerber

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Awards

  • Jens Fischer

    Camerimage (1998)

  • Best Actress (Bästa kvinnliga huvudroll)

    Guldbagge Awards (1998)

  • Jens Fischer

    Madridimagen (1998)

  • Daniel Fridell

    Montréal World Film Festival (1998)