THE AFTERMATH is set in postwar Germany in 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg during the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
Fox Searchlight Pictures presents in association with BBC Films, and with the support of Deutscher Filmförderfonds and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig- Holstein, a Scott Free Films and Amusement Park Film production THE AFTERMATH. Directed by James Kent with a screenplay by Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse (Race) and Rhidian Brook, based upon Brook’s novel, the film stars Academy Award®- nominee Keira Knightley (Colette, The Imitation Game, Atonement), Emmy Award®- winner Alexander Skarsgård (The Legend of Tarzan, Big Little Lies) and Jason Clarke (First Man, Zero Dark Thirty, Everest). The producers are Jack Arbuthnott for Scott Free Films and Malte Grunert, and the executive producers are Ridley Scott, Carlo Dusi, and Beth Pattinson and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films. The filmmaking team includes director of photography Franz Lustig, production designer Sonja Klaus, editor Beverly Mills, costume designer Bojana Nikitovič, music by Martin Phipps and casting by Nina Gold.