Commander Hamilton (1998)
"Hamilton" (original title)

Swedish agent Carl Hamilton and Finnish Åke Stålhandske are ordered to stop Russian smugglers. The smuggled goods is a nuclear missile. It's an SS 20, 1,5 megatons, "enough to turn Paris, ... See full summary »

Director:

Harald Zwart

Writers:

William Aldridge (screenplay), Jonas Cornell (screenplay),

Stars:

Peter Stormare, Lena Olin, Mark Hamill

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Peter Stormare	...	Carl Hamilton
Lena Olin	...	Tessie
Mark Hamill	...	Mike Hawkins
Mats Långbacka	...	Åke Stålhandske
Terry Carter	...	Texas Slim
Evgeniy Lazarev	...	Yuri Chivartsev (as Yevgeni Lazarev)
Zakia Tahri	...	Moona
Christer Söderlund	...	Ulfsson
Per Grytt	...	Per Molander
Per Flygare	...	Jansson
Madeleine Elfstrand	...	Anna
Andrey Smolyakov	...	Barabanov (as Andrej Smolyakov)
Thomas Hedengran	...	Gustavsson
Anders Lidberg	...	Fjälljägare
Mikael Ahlberg	...	Andersson

Storyline

Swedish agent Carl Hamilton and Finnish Åke Stålhandske are ordered to stop Russian smugglers. The smuggled goods is a nuclear missile. It's an SS 20, 1,5 megatons, "enough to turn Paris, Washington or New York to ashes". The American villain is Mike Hawkins.

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Plot Keywords:

smuggler | agent | nuclear missile | snow | dinner | 

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Taglines:

Från producenterna av "Vendetta"

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Sweden Norway Italy Morocco

Language:

English Swedish Russian

Release Date:

30 January 1998 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Commander Hamilton

Filming Locations:

Enköping, Uppsala län, Sweden

Box Office

Budget:

SEK 50,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dune Films, Moviola Film och Television AB, Rai Due

Technical Specs

Runtime:

127 min 188 min (TV)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Statoil company paid 500,000 NOK ($USD67,000) for their logo to be displayed for three seconds in the film. See also the goofs entry for this film.

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Goofs

During the opening credits, several of the men in snow camouflage have impulse amplifiers on their assault rifles. Impulse amplifier is a device used with certain types of training ammo to ensure the gun keeps working, and also to crush the wooden practice "bullet" into harmless sawdust. It blocks the barrel of a gun, making it unable to fire live ammo when in use (and is thus used as a safety measure in non-live fire exercises). Russian soldiers guarding a nuclear weapon storage would most definitely not have training ammo in their guns.

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Connections

Referenced in One Night at McCool's (2001)

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Soundtracks

"NO LOOSE ENDS"
(ANDERSEN,HAMMERSLAND,FRITZNER)
Producer D.Eriksen

User Reviews

Is this the best Hamilton film ever? I think so. Harald Schwart,Peter Stormare and Lena Olin gives Hamilton a whole new dimension.

This is probably the best Hamilton film ever. Although there`s a few holes in the story,Scwart manages to give us the story of the two Jan Guillou books Ingenmanslan Den Enda Segern. I suppose those holes will be corrected in the TV-series. Peter Stormare is,in my opinion the best Hamilton ever,and getting Lena Olin to play Tessie was also a major scoop. Althogh I don`t think I can ever identify Mark Hamill as anyone else than Luke Skywalker,I think he gives Mike Hawkins the necessary cynicism that the character was given by Jan Guillou.