What if your deepest trauma became your superpower—and two cult leaders wanted to weaponize it?
Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestOne night a nameless force sweeps over Sweden, and scattered over the country are a few chosen, who are gifted with supernatural powers. These powers are the exact opposite to what the biggest issue in their lives are - the woman unable to give birth to a child gains the ability to heal dead people. A White Leader and a Black Leader seek out these people, to prepare for the final battle between good and evil.
Direction
Mårlind/Rosenfeldt craft dread from gray skies and silence
Writing
Premise so weird it shouldn't work—yet absolutely does
Acting
Eva Röse's Jasmine carries impossible grief with haunting restraint
Creators
Måns Mårlind, Hans Rosenfeldt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Hans Rosenfeldt later created The Bridge (Bron/Broen), explaining the cross-border supernatural crime DNA.
The Befallen channels Swedish 'folkloristic realism'—treating the uncanny as mundane, a tradition from Strindberg to Let the Right One In. Its cancellation after one season remains a minor national tragedy among Nordic genre fans.
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