Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time (Video 2012)
"Prime Time" (original title)

As the recording of a TV show has come to an end, a popular television presenter, Michelle Carlsson, is mysteriously killed. Annika Bengtzon, a workaholic and a criminal reporter at the ... See full summary »

Director:

Agneta Fagerström-Olsson

Writers:

Alex Haridi (screenplay), Liza Marklund (novel)

Stars:

Malin Crépin, Björn Kjellman, Leif Andrée

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Malin Crépin	...	Annika Bengtzon
Björn Kjellman	...	Anders Schyman
Leif Andrée	...	Spiken
Kajsa Ernst	...	Berit Hamrin
Erik Johansson	...	Patrik Nilsson
Felix Engström	...	Q
Richard Ulfsäter	...	Thomas Samuelsson
Moa Gammel	...	Anne Snapphane
Josephine Bornebusch	...	Michelle Carlsson
Maria Kulle	...	Karin Bellhorn
Göran Stangertz	...	Sebastian Follin
Gustav Levin	...	Gunnar Antonsson
Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson	...	Stefan Axelsson
Malin Buska	...	Hannah Persson
Anneli Martini	...	Barbara Hansson

Storyline

As the recording of a TV show has come to an end, a popular television presenter, Michelle Carlsson, is mysteriously killed. Annika Bengtzon, a workaholic and a criminal reporter at the tabloid Kvällspressen, takes the chance to escape from a holiday celebration with her husbands family and drives off to the manor where ten suspects are being held for interrogation by the police. Among the suspects are her friend Anne Snapphane and two colleagues from Kvällspressen.

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Plot Keywords:

tabloid | journalist

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

18 May 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time

Box Office

Budget:

SEK 15,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Yellow Bird Films, Degeto Film, TV4 Nordisk Television

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The t-shirt worn by Annika Bengtzon almost all through the movie is designed by Swedish fashion studio "Acne". It is included in the autumn/winter collection of 2010 and is called "Bat Kahlo", it depicts the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

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Connections

Follows Paradise (2003)

User Reviews

TV murders

The second in the Annika Bengtzon Crime Reporter series was for me inferior to the first. This one revolved around the murder of a go-getting TV magazine-show hostess and took the form of an almost traditional whodunit with the myriad suspects holed up in the same building as the victim and most, as you'd expect, with a motive to kill her.

Our heroine gets involved by dint of one of her newspaper colleagues being one of the party of ten ensconced with the victim on her last night alive and in choosing the chance of a big story over a family weekend away with her children and her boy-friend's family, puts her relationship with him under strain.

Eventually, after 90 fairly confusing and uninvolving minutes, Annika solves the murder mystery and resolves her faltering relationship with her boy-friend, but this example of Swedish noir is no real competition for Wallander and really needs to do something to make the central character more distinctive and memorable.

This was a very run-of-the-mill story told in a matter of fact way, but failed to engage, leaving me to hope the rest of the series improved on the rather ordinary TV movie standard reached here.