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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
2009 · Directed by Niels Arden Oplev · 152 min · Drama · Thriller · Crime · Mystery · 11 frames
Tagline
Based on the Worldwide Best Seller
Crew
- Screenplay: Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
- Cinematography: Eric Kress
- Edited by: Anne Østerud
- Music: Jacob Groth
- Production design: Niels Sejer
- Produced by: Søren Stærmose
Cast
- Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist
- Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander
- Lena Endre as Erika Berger
- Sven-Bertil Taube as Henrik Vanger
- Peter Haber as Martin Vanger
- Peter Andersson as Nils Bjurman
- Marika Lagercrantz as Cecilia Vanger
- Ingvar Hirdwall as Dirch Frode
- Björn Granath as Gustav Morell
- Ewa Fröling as Harriet Vanger
Production
- Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden
- Language: Swedish, English
- Studios: Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film Denmark, ZDF, Yellow Bird
- Budget: $13,000,000
- Box office: $109,421,911
- Themes: journalist, island, bondage, rape, strong woman, hacker, based on novel or book, nazi, blow job, antisocial personality disorder
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