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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

“Män som hatar kvinnor”

Crime, Drama, Mystery |

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish crime thriller film directed by Niels Arden Oplev from a screenplay by Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, the first entry in his Millennium series. The film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.

In December 2002, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of independent magazine Millennium, loses a libel case involving unproven allegations that he published about billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström, and is sentenced to three months in prison. Lisbeth Salander, a freelance surveillance agent and hacker, is hired by Henrik Vanger, the patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, to conduct a background check on Blomkvist. Vanger then hires Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, who vanished on Children’s Day in 1966. Vanger believes that Harriet was murdered by a family member.

Henrik explains that his brothers—Gottfried, Richard, and Harald—were all supporters of the Nazi regime. As Richard died during the war, he is not a suspect in Harriet’s murder. Gottfried is described as having been in the Hitler Youth, an aggressive alcoholic whose marriage to Harriet and Martin’s mother was cold and toxic, and the two wound up living separately with the children remaining with their father. Henrik also says that he ‘never saw anyone be a worse mother than she was to Harriet’. Gottfried died a year before Harriet disappeared by accidentally drowning in a lake, and Henrik then took responsibility for raising Martin and Harriet…

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writers: Nikolaj Arcel (screenplay), Rasmus Heisterberg (screenplay),

Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson, Sven-Bertil Taube, David Dencik

Cast:

Michael NyqvistMikael Blomkvist
Noomi RapaceLisbeth Salander
Lena EndreErika Berger
Sven-Bertil TaubeHenrik Vanger
Peter HaberMartin Vanger
Peter AnderssonNils Bjurman
Marika LagercrantzCecilia Vanger
Ingvar HirdwallDirch Frode
Björn GranathGustav Morell
Ewa FrölingHarriet Vanger
Michalis KoutsogiannakisDragan Armanskij
Annika HallinAnnika Giannini
Sofia LedarpMalin Eriksson
Tomas KöhlerPlague (as Thomas Köhler)
David DencikJanne Dahlman
Stefan SaukHans-Erik Wennerström
Gösta BredefeldtHarald Vanger
Fredrik OhlssonGunnar Brännlund
Jacob ErickssonChrister Malm
Gunnel LindblomIsabella Vanger
Barbro EnbergOlder lady
Reuben SallmanderEnrico Giannini
Yasmine GarbiMimmi Wu
Georgi StaykovAlexander Zalachenko
Nina NorénAgneta Salander
Emil AlménPolice officer
Louise RymeReceptionist
Pale OlofssonJudge
Mikael RahmEditor
Willie AndréasonBirger Vanger
Lennart R. SvenssonPolice officer in woods
Karl Oscar TörnrosHuligan #1 (as Carl Oscar Törnros)
Kalled MustonenHuligan #2
Henrik KnutssonHuligan #3
Alexandra PascalidouTV-reporter
Tehilla BladYoung Lisbeth Salander
Julia SporreYoung Harriet Vanger
Laura LindJennie Giannini
Isabella IsacsonMonica Giannini
Richard FrancGottfried Vanger
Magnus SteniusPrison Guard
Daniel AbreuExtra
Linn BjörlundYoung Anita Vanger
Sofia BrattwallMarie
Christian FiedlerOtto Falk
Jannike GrutPrisonguard Anette
Alexandra HummingsonJournalist / Murder victim
Shaun R.L. KingGang Member
Henrik KvarnlötPolisinspektör
Jan MybrandEconomic director
Mika-Christer MäenpääSecurity Guard
Sovi RydénNurse
Margareta StoneBirgit Falk
Lisbeth ÅkermanTV-reporter

Sources: imdb & wikipedia

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