In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were...
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| Sven Wollter | ... | Inspector Jarnebring | |
| Tomas von Brömssen | ... | Inspector Johansson | |
| Håkan Serner | ... | Inspector Andersson | |
| Ernst Günther | ... | Dahlgren | |
| Thomas Hellberg | ... | Berg | |
| Ingvar Hirdwall | ... | Fors | |
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Niels Jensen | ... | Roger 'Rogge' Jansson |
| Tommy Johnson | ... | Inspector Rundberg | |
| Rico Rönnbäck | ... | Kjell Göran Hedberg | |
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Hans Villius | ... | Minister of Justice (as Hans Willius) |
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Sten Lonnert | ... | Olsson, Alcoholic |
| Nina Gunke | ... | Eva Zetterberg | |
| Margreth Weivers | ... | Alva Wiström | |
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Gun Karlsson | ... | Mrs. Forsberg, Witness at the Post Office |
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Marie Delleskog | ... | Janna, Roger's Fiancée |
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In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were the first to the crime scene, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, a man assigned to guard the country's Minister of Justice. Just as the beat cops think they've tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose their certainty, alibis crop up, and even the cops doubt what they've seen. Who's protecting the suspect and why? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Inspector Jarnebring: So are we.
Dahlgren: Good. Than the feeling is mutual.
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The film is loosely based on the discovery of the real-life Swedish Minister of Justice's liaisons with prostitutes in the 1970s. It was a major scandal where the truth was believed to be largely covered up, and Leif G.W. Persson, who at the time was the source within the national police authority who blew the whistle to a newspaper, was discharged and found comfort in writing the book that the film is based on. See more »Goofs
When the Minister of Justice is watching TV in his home, his head ever so slightly jumps to the side when switching channels, revealing that the shot consists of two takes being spliced together. See more »Quotes
Dahlgren: That's not my headache. I'm not your boss and for that I am grateful.Inspector Jarnebring: So are we.
Dahlgren: Good. Than the feeling is mutual.
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Director Widerberg could do very well in widely separate genres. He did a few crime stories on cinema, but never just for the 'who dunnit'. There had to be a burning social message, something rotting in the kingdom.
Here it sure is. The Leif GW Persson novel, on which the film is based, is about misuse of power, all the way up. The novel is actually loosely based on a political scandal in Sweden, which Persson was involved in revealing.
Widerberg's movie has got several qualities, way beyond that of creating a thrill. With a very firm grip, of the kind only somebody that skilled as a director can have, he tightens the suspense, intensifies the conflict, broadens the importance of what takes place, until the film becomes an unpleasant, but in its own way accurate, revelation about modern society. And it's a good thrill, too.
A trivia of interest to none but me, I guess, is that one of the locations is my apartment at that time.