Delusion (2009)
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| German title | Delusion |
| Original title | Man som hatar kvinnor |
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| Country of production | Sweden , Denmark , Germany , Norway |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | Theatrical version: 146 minutes, Extended Cut: 178 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Niels Arden Oplev |
| script |
Nikolaj Arcel , Rasmus Heisterberg , Roman: Stieg Larsson |
| production | Søren Stærmose |
| music | Jacob Groth |
| camera | Eric Kress |
| cut | Anne Østerud |
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Verblendung (original title: Män som hatar kvinnor , literal translation: Men who hate women ) is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson and the first part of the Millennium Trilogy . Directed by the Dane Niels Arden Oplev . The film was released in Swedish cinemas on February 27, 2009. The cinema release in Germany was on October 1st, 2009. The second film is called Verdammnis , the third forgiveness , each based on the novel of the same name. A remake was made by David Fincher in 2011 , see under delusion (2011) .
The film was produced by the Yellow Bird production company in collaboration with Swedish Television and ZDF Enterprises .
action
The entrepreneur Henrik Vanger receives a pressed flower anonymously every year for his birthday. Originally he always received such flowers from his niece Harriet, until they suddenly disappeared without a trace on Children's Day in the summer of 1966 . At the age of 82, Vanger would like to try again to solve her disappearance. He suspects that his niece's killer has been sending the flowers since the disappearance of his niece, and commissions the Stockholm investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist to do the research. In the course of an investigation against the criminal entrepreneur Wennerström, he fell for false evidence and was sentenced to three months in prison for defamation. Until he arrives in prison , he says goodbye to the editorial team of his own magazine Millennium and accepts Vanger's generous offer, especially since he himself still has childhood memories of Harriet. Vanger believes the perpetrator can be found in his family, a collection of greedy egocentrics and old Nazis. Blomkvist moves to the countryside, where most of the Vanger family live, and lives in a hut.
Vanger's lawyer previously had Blomkvist checked by a detective agency, which the young hacker Lisbeth Salander used for this purpose . Because of her violent childhood and a psychiatric report, she is under guardianship . Her current guardian, the lawyer Bjurman, extortionately uses his position of power in order to sexually coerce her , up to and including sadistic rape . However, Lisbeth manages to turn the tables: She records one of the abuse on tape and threatens to publish it if he should bother her again. She also raped Bjurman and stigmatized him with a tattoo.
With the help of Lisbeth, Blomkvist succeeds in following new leads. Harriet's disappearance has been linked to a number of sexually motivated feminicides. Lisbeth and Mikael begin a callous sex relationship. The longer they live in seclusion, the more dangerous it becomes for them: the hut is secretly broken into, a rifleman barely misses Mikael in the forest and the entire Vanger clan threatens Mikael indirectly.
The two succeed in solving the serial murders at risk of death, initially suspecting Harald Vanger (Henrik's older brother). Blomkvist breaks into Harald's house, is caught by him and threatened with a gun. Martin, Harald's nephew present in the house, appeases Harald. He goes to his own house nearby with Blomkvist, and Blomkvist tells him that he thinks Harald is the culprit. When Martin learns that Salander is comparing old travel documents from Vanger's files with the crime scenes of the murders that have committed, he believes that he will shortly be convicted of a serial killer. He overpowers Blomkvist and begins to abuse him physically and mentally in his torture room, with the intention of ultimately killing him. He happily describes how his father introduced him to the murder of women at the age of 16. The feminicides that Harriet linked were only the tip of the iceberg. He has meanwhile raped and murdered so many women, mostly prostitutes and immigrants, that he no longer has an overview. Lisbeth appears at the last minute, knocking Vanger down with a golf club and saving Blomkvist from death. Martin Vanger flees with his car, is pursued by Lisbeth and races down an embankment, getting trapped in the wreckage. Instead of helping him, Lisbeth watches with satisfaction as Martin dies in the burning car wreck. Lisbeth returns to the torture cellar, where she and Mikael discover, to their horror, that Martin photographed all the victims as corpses and collected the photos in a photo album. Lisbeth leaves Mikael, who feels more for her than she feels for him, and returns to Stockholm.
Against all odds, however, Harriet was not one of Martin's victims. She had been sexually abused for years by her own father and Martin, until she finally kept her drunken father under water in a lake until he drowned. Against this background, the impending sexual abuse by Martin and the mortal danger to which she was exposed as a witness, she escaped through a daring escape and from then on lived under a false identity as a farmer in Australia. There Blomkvist tracks her down and brings her and Henrik Vanger back together.
After Blomkvist began his three-month imprisonment, he saw a report on television about an unknown young woman who had enriched herself enormously through access to Wennerström's accounts. From the pictures taken by a surveillance camera, he recognizes that this was Lisbeth. As a side result, she had found further incriminating material against Wennerström, with which Blomkvist can write a disclosure book and restore his good reputation. One day the body of Wennerström, who died by suicide, is found. In the final scene you can see the elegantly dressed Lisbeth enjoying her wealth in the warm.
Bible
The ritual and sacrificial laws in Leviticus (Leviticus) play an important role in the film: The feminicides noted by Harriet proceeded according to the description in the Bible passages. Verses 1.12, 20.16, 20.27, 12.8 and 20.18 are quoted in the order of the film.
Frames
The film was originally supposed to last almost three hours and was not intended for the cinema. Ultimately, however, the decision was made to show the film in the cinema, but tightened the plot to shorten it. The original version was released on DVD in Sweden and the Netherlands and was broadcast on television in Germany as a two-part series by ZDF . In this longer version, which was published as an extended version , the affair between Mikael Blomkvist and Erika Berger and some other elements from the book that were missing in the theatrical version are integrated again.
criticism
"Atmospheric and gloomy film, which, behind an aesthetic based on current US series and thrillers, develops a classic crime plot with a little surprise, but quite solidly and uses its conventional stylistic devices effectively, apart from a few weaknesses."
“Director Niels Arden Oplev, who previously shot series for Swedish television, has succeeded in creating a high-class thriller on an international level with 'Verblendung'. Gray, cloudy and wet with rain - this is how the scene of Sweden presents itself in the two and a half hour crime tour de force. Oplev's film casts an unvarnished look into the cruelest human abysses. The torture scenes are hard to endure, and as far as the purely psychological brutality is concerned, the shocker can certainly take on the great genre role model ' The Silence of the Lambs ' - although 'Delusion' has to do without a charismatic figure like Hannibal Lecter . The villain presented at the end doesn't have nearly the perfidious charisma of Anthony Hopkins . [...] Conclusion: Powerful, extremely exciting film adaptation of the bestseller by Stieg Larsson: Finally a European thriller at the best Hollywood level! "
“'Men who hate women' is Larsson's book in the original, and this hatred is innate in bourgeois, authoritarian society, the discomfort with its culture that has haunted Bergman's cinema for decades. On this point, the film can preserve the essence of the books, which, in a shocking and grandiose way, bring together both the political with the sexual perversion, the fascism with the sadism. [...] The film cannot hold out the great epic breath that the novel unfolds, the horizontal drive, the action, is superimposed by a suction into the depths. The extensive family histories are only rudimentarily preserved, but the film conjures up the poetic power of memory and its aid, photography. "
Trivia
Nina Norén, the birth mother of Noomi Rapace, also plays her mother Agneta Salander in a short sequence in the film. The short flashback in which the young Lisbeth sets her father on fire was filmed in Stockholm on Lundagatan ( ⊙ ). Lisbeth's apartment, which she lived in with her mother and sister as a child, is also in this street in the novels. When Mikael and Lisbeth decipher the Bible code, a short scene shows the bridge in the background, which served as a backdrop in the second film adaptation . The recordings were shot in Sweden at Segersta ( ⊙ ).
Awards
The film won several international film and festival awards as well as television awards, as Verblendung was evaluated as a feature film and also broadcast as a television series.
| year | event | Category (s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Amanda | nominated in the category Best Foreign Film |
| 2009 | European film award | nominated in the categories of Best Actress (Noomi Rapace), Best Film Music and Audience Award |
| 2010 | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Audience Award ("Best Narrative Feature") |
| 2010 | Guldbagge | Best Film , Best Lead Actress (Noomi Rapace) and Audience Award , nominated in the categories Best Supporting Actor (Sven-Bertil Taube) and Best Cinematography |
| 2010 | Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo | Golden Nymph for Best Actress - Multi-Part TV (Noomi Rapace) |
| 2010 | Satellite Awards | Best Actress - Drama (Noomi Rapace) and Best Foreign Language Film , nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category |
| 2010 | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category |
| 2010 | New York Film Critics Online Awards | Best Young Actress ("Breakthrough Performer") |
| 2010 | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | Best Foreign Language Film , nominated in the Best Actress category (Noomi Rapace) |
| 2010 | Houston Film Critics Awards | Best Foreign Language Film , nominated in the Best Actress category (Noomi Rapace) |
| 2010 | London Film Critics Circle Awards | nominated in the category Best Actress of the Year (Noomi Rapace) |
| 2010 | St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards | nominated in the categories of Best Actress (Noomi Rapace) and Best Foreign Language Film |
| 2011 | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Language Film , nominated in the Best Actress category (Noomi Rapace) |
| 2011 | British Academy Film Award | Best Non-English Language Film , nominated in the categories Best Actress (Noomi Rapace) and Best Adapted Screenplay |
Novel to film
At the same time as the film, Heyne Verlag published a special edition of the novel Verblendung with the title Verblendung - Der Roman zum Film .
Web links
- Blindness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Delusion. NFP neue film produktion GmbH, accessed on January 16, 2011 (official German website for the film).
- Infatuation withRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for facing . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 667 K).
- ↑ Age rating for facing . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Joachim Kurz: Delusion. Kino Zeit, accessed September 17, 2009 .
- ↑ Stieg Larsson's bestseller "Verblendung" - a Hollywood-level thriller. Cinema .com, accessed September 17, 2009 .
- ↑ Rose Larsson's Men Who Hate Women to premiere in Scandinavia. February 13, 2009, accessed September 19, 2009 .
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review
- ↑ Fritz Göttler: Men who hate women ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 30, 2009, accessed February 23, 2014.
