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 Nyqvist | … | Mikael Blomkvist |
Noomi Rapace | … | Lisbeth Salander |
Lena Endre | … | Erika Berger |
Sven-Bertil Taube | … | Henrik Vanger |
Peter Haber | … | Martin Vanger |
Peter Andersson | … | Nils Bjurman |
Marika Lagercrantz | … | Cecilia Vanger |
Ingvar Hirdwall | … | Dirch Frode |
Björn Granath | … | Gustav Morell |
Ewa Fröling | … | Harriet Vanger |
Michalis Koutsogiannakis | … | Dragan Armanskij |
Annika Hallin | … | Annika Giannini |
Sofia Ledarp | … | Malin Eriksson |
Tomas Köhler | … | Plague (as Thomas Köhler) |
David Dencik | … | Janne Dahlman |
Stefan Sauk | … | Hans-Erik Wennerström |
Gösta Bredefeldt | … | Harald Vanger |
Fredrik Ohlsson | … | Gunnar Brännlund |
Jacob Ericksson | … | Christer Malm |
Gunnel Lindblom | … | Isabella Vanger |
Barbro Enberg | … | Older lady |
Reuben Sallmander | … | Enrico Giannini |
Yasmine Garbi | … | Mimmi Wu |
Georgi Staykov | … | Alexander Zalachenko |
Nina Norén | … | Agneta Salander |
Emil Almén | … | Police officer |
Louise Ryme | … | Receptionist |
Pale Olofsson | … | Judge |
Mikael Rahm | … | Editor |
Willie Andréason | … | Birger Vanger |
Lennart R. Svensson | … | Police officer in woods |
Karl Oscar Törnros | … | Huligan #1 (as Carl Oscar Törnros) |
Kalled Mustonen | … | Huligan #2 |
Henrik Knutsson | … | Huligan #3 |
Alexandra Pascalidou | … | TV-reporter |
Tehilla Blad | … | Young Lisbeth Salander |
Julia Sporre | … | Young Harriet Vanger |
Laura Lind | … | Jennie Giannini |
Isabella Isacson | … | Monica Giannini |
Richard Franc | … | Gottfried Vanger |
Magnus Stenius | … | Prison Guard |
Daniel Abreu | … | Extra |
Linn Björlund | … | Young Anita Vanger |
Sofia Brattwall | … | Marie |
Christian Fiedler | … | Otto Falk |
Jannike Grut | … | Prisonguard Anette |
Alexandra Hummingson | … | Journalist / Murder victim |
Shaun R.L. King | … | Gang Member |
Henrik Kvarnlöt | … | Polisinspektör |
Jan Mybrand | … | Economic director |
Mika-Christer Mäenpää | … | Security Guard |
Sovi Rydén | … | Nurse |
Margareta Stone | … | Birgit Falk |
Lisbeth Åkerman | … | TV-reporter |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia