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Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace)

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Nils Bjurman (Peter Andersson)

Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)

Erika Berger (Lena Endre) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)

The Vanger Family

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

directed by Niels Arden Oplev
starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

Author Stieg Larsson, who died suddenly in 2004, left behind three unpublished novels, known as the “Millennium” trilogy, which have become a global sensation, elevating Larsson to the world’s second best-selling author last year (behind The Kite Runner’s Khaled Hosseini). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one of the decade’s major literary success stories, selling over 8,000,000 copies worldwide, and the film adaptation is the highest grossing Swedish film in history and 2009’s highest-grossing European production.

Awards

2009 SWEDISH GULDBAGGE AWARDS (Swedish Oscar): Best Picture, Audience Award, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Noomi Rapace)
Audience Award, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature, Portland International Film Festival

Press Reactions

This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. Haunting and hypnotic. – Rolling Stone
4 Stars! Lisbeth is as compelling as any movie character in recent memory. – Chicago Sun-Times
A mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect. – Los Angeles Times
A stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, and a sensational actress — the news about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is nothing but good. – The Wall Street Journal