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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 27, 2009

Runtime

2h 32m

Genres

Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

User Score

75%

Original Title

Män som hatar kvinnor

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

Director

Niels Arden Oplev

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$109,421,911

Description

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