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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

7.5/10

Rating

152 min

Runtime

2009

Release Year

Niels Arden Oplev

Director

Cast

Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber

Quick Synopsis

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish thriller adapted from Stieg Larsson's novel, focusing on Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged journalist and publisher for the magazine Millennium, who loses a libel lawsuit against a corrupt industrialist named Hans-Erik Wennerström. Despite this setback, Blomkvist is hired by Henrik Vanger, a retired industrialist, to investigate the decades-old disappearance of Vanger's niece. During the investigation, Blomkvist teams up with Lisbeth Salander, a young and skilled hacker, to uncover the truth behind the cold case.

Detailed Synopsis of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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

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