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Writer:
Hans Iveberg (writer)
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Release Date:
29 January 1999 (Sweden) more
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Plot:
A thriller set in a Swedish village. Lisa comes back from London to sell a house left to her by her father... more | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Not a crime story as we know it - like it or hate it more (5 total)

Cast

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Regina Lund ... Lisa
Mats Rudal ... Martin, Lisa's significant other
Björn Gedda ... Sven, Lisa's uncle
Fredrik Hammar ... Kurt
Maria Lundqvist ... Agnes, Lasse's wife
Margareta Pettersson ... Alice, shop clerk at Konsum
Håkan Wennberg ... Ernst Berg, Lisa's father aka 'Farsan'
Mikael Rundquist ... Lasse
Chatarina Larsson ... Margareta, Lisa's mother
Gösta Bredefeldt ... Olsson, police inspector
Jonas Falk ... Bengt Helmersson, vicar
Sven Strömersten-Holm ... Tourist
Dan Sjögren ... Villager
Roger Sellberg ... Working friend
Line Lyckman ... Lisa as Child
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Also Known As:
The Lake (USA)
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Norway:91 min
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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Not a crime story as we know it - like it or hate it, 10 May 2002
Author: BCM (bcm-2) from Heiligenhafen, Germany

A different story.

From the very beginning You'll get the answer to the murder plot, but the revealing of the motives, the coherences and the scenes might thrill you.

Lisa's father seems to crawl back to life to fulfil his revenge. Also Lisa finds herself acting like her father and then felt being catapulted to her childhood, next embraced by her pre-adultness - feeling comfortable and like a strange at the same time.

The murderers are trying to cover each other and to hide their deed, yet the dead ones will not rest until buried in holy earth ...

Sjön is not a crime story as you know it, maybe it isn't at all. Maybe it's a hell-of-a-story, literally, and you will find yourself liking or hating it.

I like it, even the plot isn't a plot as we know it and all in all the whole thing isn't a haunted house tale, a tale of revenge and love or a ghost story.

But after watching it, I had dulled feelings and strange thoughts spinning through my head - and that happens only when a movie touches me.

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