Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Studio Sex (2012)

The corpse of a young woman is found in a public park. Annika Bengtzon, a criminal reporter at the tabloid Kvällspressen, starts researching and gets more and more personally involved as ... See full summary »

Director:

Agneta Fagerström-Olsson (as Agneta Fagerström Olsson)

Writers:

Liza Marklund (novel), Antonia Pyk (screenplay)

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
Leonard Terfelt	...	Christer Lundgren
Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl	...	Statsministern (as Anders Ahlbom)
Johannes Alfvén	...	Joachim
Madeleine Martin	...	Patricia
Anna Azcárate	...	Karina Björnlund
Ana Gil de Melo Nascimento	...	Marie Lundgren
Mats Blomgren	...	Josephines pappa
Anna-Lena Hemström	...	Josephines mamma

Storyline

The corpse of a young woman is found in a public park. Annika Bengtzon, a criminal reporter at the tabloid Kvällspressen, starts researching and gets more and more personally involved as she learns that the victim worked as a stripper at the club Studio sex and was brutally murdered. Evidence arises that the Minister of Finance was present at Studio sex on the night of the murder, and a political scandal ensues. But things are not as they appear.

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Plot Keywords:

murder of a nude woman | nudity | eastern europe | minister | murder | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Lifetime (2012)

User Reviews

Only a fair interpretation of the book.

I find that the various adaptations of the Liza Marklund books, including this one, tend to be oversimplified to allow the film to be placed into a 90 minute time slot.

The result is that the character development is weak, and the plot often simplified over what is depicted in the book.

Of course, all film adaptations suffer from simplification for time reasons, but I find particularly with the Marklund books that this seriously detracts form the original work.

For some reason, while Studio Sex is the first Bengtzon book chronologically (not in published order) by Marklund, it is not the first in the sequence of films, and thus we find Annika already married with two children (she was not in the book), and miss totally the development of her character before she was married and thus understand more clearly why she has some mental instability and is so driven by her career.

Details

Official Sites:

MHz Networks [United States] MHz Networks [United States]

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

18 July 2012 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Studio Sex

Box Office

Budget:

SEK15,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Yellow Bird, ARD Degeto Film, TV4

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color