Commander Hamilton

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Movie
German title Commander Hamilton
Original title Hamilton
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish , English
Publishing year 1998
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK no youth approval; FSK 16 (abridged version)
Rod
Director Harald Zwart
script William Aldridge
Jonas Cornell
production Ingemar Leijonborg
Hans Lönnerheden
music Trond Bjerknes
camera Jérôme Robert
cut Darek Hodor
occupation

Commander Hamilton is a Swedish action thriller from 1998. It is based on the novels The Only Victory and No Man's Land by Jan Guillou .

action

A nuclear missile was stolen in Russia . It is said to be smuggled through Sweden. The CIA then asks the Swedish secret service for help, a special command under Commander Carl Hamilton is supposed to stop the rocket on Russian territory. They track down the smugglers, kill everyone and remove all traces except for the missile. Only a smuggler could escape. Hamilton sends Åke Stålhandske to kill him too, but Stålhandske lets him go without his comrades knowing.

A short time later, a murder is committed in northern Sweden. The arrested suspect recognizes Stålhandske again, so it is discovered that there is a surviving Russian smuggler and Stålhandske is temporarily suspended from duty. The relationship between him and Hamilton is tense. The traces of the murder lead to the Russian port city of Murmansk . Hamilton joins the Swedish police investigator to conduct research on his own in Russia. He suspects that the nuclear missile found was just a diversionary maneuver and that a second missile was successfully smuggled through Sweden. He finds out that all Russian smugglers work for a steel company under the direction of ex-CIA agent Mike Hawkins. Another suspect in the murder testifies that KGB officer Barabanov is the wanted killer. Hamilton then illegally searches his apartment, finds incriminating material and barely escapes the approaching Russian soldiers. Barabanov admits that Hawkins organized the smuggling. Hawkins is arrested and reveals that the second missile was brought to Libya , but is then released.

In order to prevent area bombing by the Americans and a nuclear explosion, Hamilton wants to find and defuse the warhead himself. With the help of the PLO he is smuggled into Libya, he works again with Stålhandske. You will also arrive at the military camp where Hawkins is staying. But he is waiting for them: Barabanov has taken Hamilton's girlfriend Tessie and Stålhandske's wife hostage on his behalf and will kill them in 30 minutes if Hawkins doesn't answer. This puts them under pressure: they have to call headquarters in Sweden to initiate a rescue of the women, but in doing so they reveal their position to the Americans, who in turn immediately launch a bomber attack on the camp. They decide to call and want to storm the camp immediately to defuse the missile in less than 20 minutes.

The attack succeeds and Hamilton can lure Hawkins into a minefield. But he survived the explosion and can almost kill Hamilton while defusing. Stålhandske arrives just in time to save Hamilton. You can escape with the defused warhead just before the American planes attack. Meanwhile, during the rescue operation, the women also overwhelm Barabanov and kill him with his own lethal injection. Hamilton and Stålhandske are reconciled and in the end Hamilton can hug his girlfriend in Sweden.

Reviews

The film received shared reviews. Some critics praised it as a high quality and realistic agent thriller from Europe. Others complained about the action-heavy plot and the sometimes immoral depictions of violence. On the Internet Movie Database , Commander Hamilton has an average user rating of 5.8 out of 10 stars.

"What their super spy James Bond is to the British or the CIA agent Jack Ryan is to the Americans, that is to the Swedes the novel and, more recently, film hero Carl Hamilton."

- prism

"Anyone who overlooks the bizarre, but also absurd story, experiences breathtaking fireworks of brutal and bloody action with a macabre undertone."

- new-video.de

More Hamilton films

In 1992 director Per Berglund filmed a Hamilton novel called The Democratic Terrorist with Stellan Skarsgård in the lead role.

Agent Hamilton - In the Interest of the Nation by director Kathrine Windfeld came to Swedish cinemas in early 2012 and was released directly on DVD in Germany. Mikael Persbrandt plays the role of Commander Hamilton and it is the first of a total of three planned films: In September 2012, the second part was published in Sweden under the original title Hamilton 2: Men inte om det gäller din dotter and the third part was completed is planned for 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ User rating : Hamilton (1998) in the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ See prisma.de
  3. ↑ See new-video.de
  4. ↑ Start dates for Hamilton - I nationens intresse (2012) in the Internet Movie Database