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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

Top Billed Cast

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    Michael Nyqvist

    Mikael Blomkvist

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    Noomi Rapace

    Lisbeth Salander

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    Lena Endre

    Erika Berger

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    Sven-Bertil Taube

    Henrik Vanger

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    Peter Haber

    Martin Vanger

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    Peter Andersson

    Nils Bjurman

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    Marika Lagercrantz

    Cecilia Vanger

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    Ingvar Hirdwall

    Dirch Frode

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    Björn Granath

    Gustav Morell

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 years ago, and I liked it, but I don’t remember it clearly enough to compare the two. My f=general impression, though, is that this original is better. Of course, the Lisbeth character is the real hero here. A rough childhood and beyond have molded her into a tough lady indeed, mentally, physical...