The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Overview

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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 27, 2009

Original language

Swedish

Spoken languages

Swedish, English

Countries

Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Production

Yellow Bird,Film i Väst,Det Danske Filminstitut,Svenska Filminstitutet,SVT,Nordisk Film & TV Fond,Nordisk Film Denmark,ZDF,Film Capital Stockholm,Spiltan Underhållning

Cast

Michael Nyqvist,Noomi Rapace,Lena Endre,Sven-Bertil Taube,Peter Haber,Peter Andersson,Marika Lagercrantz,Ingvar Hirdwall,Björn Granath,Ewa Frölingand 43 more

Director

Niels Arden Oplev

Writer

Rasmus Heisterberg,Stieg Larsson,Nikolaj Arcel,Sigrid Strohmann,Eva Svenstedt Ward,Jenny Gilbertsson,Camilla Ahlgren

Producer

Anni Faurbye Fernandez,Søren Stærmose,Mikael Wallen

Cinematography

Eric Kress

Music

Jacob Groth

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$109,421,911

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt1132620