The Girl Who Played with Fire (film)

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Swedish theatrical release poster
SwedishFlickan som lekte med elden
Directed byDaniel Alfredson
Screenplay byJonas Frykberg
Based onThe Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson
Produced bySøren Stærmose
Starring
CinematographyPeter Mokrosinski
Edited byMattias Morheden
Music byJacob Groth
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Nordisk Film (Sweden and Denmark)
  • NFP (Germany)
Release dates
  • 18 September 2009 (2009-09-18) (Sweden and Denmark)
  • 4 February 2010 (2010-02-04) (Germany)
Running time
129 minutes
Countries
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • Germany[1]
LanguageSwedish
Box office$67.1 million[2]

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is a 2009 Swedish-Danish crime thriller film with German co-production directed by Daniel Alfredson from a screenplay of Jonas Frykberg and produced by Søren Stærmose. It is the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo from the same year and based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, the second entry in his Millennium series.

Starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace in the main roles, the film follows Lisbeth Salander as she returns to Sweden after spending a year abroad. She falls under suspicion of having murdered a journalist and his girlfriend, as well as her own social services guardian, Nils Bjurman, while Mikael Blomkvist tries to find her before the authorities.

The third part of the trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes), was released two months later, on 27 November 2009.

  1. ^ "Flickan som lekte med elden (2009)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
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