The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander with Mikael Blomkvist
Swedish theatrical release poster
SwedishMän som hatar kvinnor
Directed byNiels Arden Oplev
Screenplay by
Based onThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Produced bySøren Stærmose
Starring
CinematographyEric Kress
Edited byAnne Østerud
Music byJacob Groth
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Nordisk Film (Sweden/Denmark)
  • NFP Marketing & Film Distribution (Germany)
Release dates
  • 27 February 2009 (2009-02-27) (Sweden and Denmark)
  • 1 October 2009 (2009-10-01) (Germany)
Running time
153 minutes[1]
Countries
LanguageSwedish
Budget$13 million[4]
Box office$104 million[4]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor, lit.'Men who hate women') is a 2009 Swedish-Danish crime thriller film with German co-production directed by Niels Arden Oplev from a screenplay by Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel and produced by Søren Stærmose, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, the first entry in his Millennium series. The film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.

That same year, two sequels, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, were released in September and November, respectively.

  1. ^ "Man som hatar kvinnor – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  2. ^ "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)". Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
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