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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

7.5

Released February 27, 2009Runtime 2h 32min

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

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Det Danske Filminstitut

Nordisk Film Denmark

ZDF

Yellow Bird

Film Capital Stockholm

Spiltan Underhållning

Nordisk Film & TV Fond

Svenska Filminstitutet

SVT

Film i Väst

Production Countries

Denmark

Germany

Norway

Sweden

Finances

Budget: $13,000,000
Revenue: $109,421,911
Profit/Loss: $96,421,911

Stream

Rent

Buy

Videos

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 Erikson

Tomas KöhlerPlague

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 in Dalarna

Louise RymeReceptionist

Pale OlofssonJudge

Mikael RahmEditor

Willie AndréasonBirger Vanger

Lennart R. SvenssonPoliceman in the Woods

Karl Oscar TörnrosHuligan #1

Kalled MustonenHuligan #2

Henrik KnutssonHuligan #3

Alexandra PascalidouFemale TV Reporter

Tehilla BladYoung Lisbeth Salander

Julia SporreYoung Harriet Vanger

Laura LindJennie Giannini

Isabella IsacsonMonica Giannini

Richard FrancGottfried Vanger

Magnus SteniusPrison Guard

Daniel AbreuMan (uncredited)

Sofia BrattwallMarie (uncredited)

Christian FiedlerOtto Falk (uncredited)

Jannike GrutPrison Guard Anette (uncredited)

Alexandra HummingsonJournalist / Murder Victim (uncredited)

Shaun R.L. KingGang Member (uncredited)

Henrik KvarnlötPolice Inspector (uncredited)

Jan MybrandEconomic Director (uncredited)

Mika-Christer MäenpääSecurity Guard (uncredited)

Sovi RydénNurse (uncredited)

Margareta StoneBirgit Falk (uncredited)

Lisbeth ÅkermanTV Reporter (uncredited)

Crew

Niels Arden OplevDirector

Daniel ChillaAssistant Director

Maria BillbergAssistant Director

Lotta WestbergScript Supervisor

Rasmus HeisterbergScreenplay

Nikolaj ArcelScreenplay

Stieg LarssonNovel

Camilla AhlgrenScript Editor

Jenny GilbertssonScript Editor

Eva Svenstedt WardScript Editor

Sigrid StrohmannScript Editor

Anni Faurbye FernandezExecutive Producer

Søren StærmoseProducer

Tusse LandeCasting

Mikael WallenExecutive Producer

Pia EkedahlLocation Manager

Martin StrömbergPublicist

Anneli OscarssonLocation Manager

Susann Billberg-RydholmLine Producer

Tobias ÅströmProduction Manager

Cilla RörbyCostume Design

Anne ØsterudEditor

Eric KressDirector of Photography

Niels SejerProduction Design

Jacob GrothOriginal Music Composer

Morten HolmDialogue Editor

Tor-Bjorn OlssonVisual Effects Supervisor

Martin MadsenCompositors

Niels Arild NielsenSound Re-Recording Mixer

Maria HåårdAssistant Art Director

Anders HörlingSound Recordist

Kimmo RajalaStunt Coordinator

Knut KoivistoStill Photographer

Victor DavidsonCamera Operator

Sean WheelanVisual Effects Producer

Kennet FromProperty Master

Jenny FredMakeup Artist

Johan SjölinConstruction Coordinator

Johan PhillipsSteadicam Operator

Love LarsonMakeup Effects

Paul GustavssonProperty Master

Olof JohnsonCamera Operator

Peter AlbrechtsenSound Effects Editor

Ville PenttiläGaffer

Peter SchultzSound Re-Recording Mixer

Knut K. PedersenSteadicam Operator

AnnaCarin LockMakeup Artist

Anders LexneArmorer

Sarah K. HellströmVisual Effects Coordinator

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Reviews

by Peter McGinn

Oddly, the version of this movie I watched contained both English subtitles and dubbing, and after a while I wished I could turn off the dubbing and go with just the subtitles, so that their mouths would always move at the right times. I watched the U.S. production of this with Daniel Craig many...