Den demokratiske terroristen (1992)

Swedish secret agent infiltrate a German terrorist group.

Director:

Per Berglund

Writers:

Jan Guillou (novel), Hans Iveberg

Stars:

Stellan Skarsgård, Katja Flint, Burkhard Driest

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stellan Skarsgård	...	Carl Hamilton
Katja Flint	...	Monika
Burkhard Driest	...	Horst
Karl Heinz Maslo	...	Werner
Heikko Deutschmann	...	Martin
Susanne Lothar	...	Friederike
May Buchgraber	...	Eva
Ulrich Tukur	...	Siegfried Maak
Rolf Hoppe	...	Lodge Hecht
Günther Maria Halmer	...	Colonel May
Kjell Bergqvist	...	Eric von Platen
Claudia Demarmels	...	Barbara
Konstantin Graudus	...	Hans
Heinrich Rolfing	...	Störtebecker (as Heinz Rolfing)
Janna Striebeck	...	Anna

Storyline

The West German security police, Verfassungsschutz, need help to infiltrate a group connected to the Rote Arme Fraktion. The Swedish James Bond, Carl Hamilton, goes to Hamburg, pretending to be a Swedish officer, thrown out of the country after having been exposed as an East German spy. He gets in contact with the terrorists and joins them. Together they are planning to strike against the CIA headquarters in Stockholm

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Plot Keywords:

spy | bank robbery | terrorist group | espionage | commando raid | 

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Germany Sweden

Language:

English Swedish German Arabic

Release Date:

21 August 1992 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

The Democratic Terrorist

Filming Locations:

Diplomatstaden, Östermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Box Office

Gross:

SEK 21,953,461 (Sweden)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film Fonds, FilmTeknik, Multimedia Gesellschaft für Audiovisuelle Information mbH

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Agent Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)

User Reviews

The best Hamilton so far

This is Carl Hamilton at his best. It may not be Stellan Skarsgård at his best (comparing with movies like Breaking the Waves), but he's doing a good job here too. I would actually say that Stellan Skarsgård IS Carl Hamilton, in more or less the same way as Sean Connery IS James Bond. None of the other actors playing him in the later movies quite reaches his level - they are, of course, also working with scripts not even half as good as this one.

The movie in itself explores the difficult feelings of an agent infiltrating and more or less becoming part of a terrorist organisation. Their methods may be ugly, yes even horrible. But the purpose of their actions? It's action with a nice enough twist, making it entertaining AND interesting.