8.2 Score

2009 • 2h 32min • R • Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

"Based on the Worldwide Best Seller"

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

IMDb 7.8

RT 85%

MC 76

Director

Niels Arden Oplev

Writers

Rasmus Heisterberg

Nikolaj Arcel

Stieg Larsson

Composer

Jacob Groth

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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

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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 Erikson

Tomas Köhler Plague

David Dencik Janne Dahlman

Stefan Sauk Hans-Erik Wennerströ...

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