Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)

Johan Falk's stepdaughter's biological father seems serious about getting to know Nina, but his construction company is in debt to the Russian mafia "Karayan". When Örjan can not pay their debts they kidnap Nina.

Director:

Richard Holm

Writers:

Viking Johansson (screenplay), Anders Nilsson (storyline)

Stars:

Jakob Eklund, Marie Richardson, Johan Hedenberg

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jakob Eklund	...	Johan Falk
Marie Richardson	...	Helén Andersson
Johan Hedenberg	...	Örjan Bohlin
Mikael Tornving	...	Patrik Agrell
Jonna Järnefelt	...	Kaie Saar
Tobias Zilliacus	...	Zanko Zajkov
Hanna Alsterlund	...	Nina Andersson
Jens Hultén	...	Seth Rydell
Meliz Karlge	...	Sophie Nordh
Anastasios Soulis	...	Felix Rydell (as Anastasios 'Stasse' Soulis)
Philip Panov	...	Stefano Heldna
Alexander Karim	...	Niklas Saxlid
Mårten Svedberg	...	Vidar Pettersson
Zeljko Santrac	...	Matte
Georgi Staykov	...	Madis Mägi

Storyline

Johan Falk's stepdaughter's biological father seems serious about getting to know Nina, but his construction company is in debt to the Russian mafia "Karayan". When Örjan can not pay their debts they kidnap Nina.

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Plot Keywords:

thirteenth part | sequel | foreign language title | organized crime | returning character | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook [Sweden]

Country:

Sweden Germany

Language:

Swedish Russian English Estonian

Release Date:

7 November 2012 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

GSI - Spezialeinheit Göteborg - Gegen die Zeit

Filming Locations:

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Company Credits

Production Co:

Strix Drama, TV4, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

DTS (5.1 surround)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows The Third Wave (2003)

User Reviews

Decent crime thriller, with some questionableness

Arising from globalization and the EU membership, Sweden has also become an open country, which unfortunately includes free movement of criminals, illegal workers etc. Often, there are immigrants involved in cross-border felonies - in this film, people from the former Eastern bloc. The events seem logical, the thrill is in place, but the choice of actors depicting non-Swedes and their character names are a real mess: an Estonian in Sweden is performed by a Bulgarian, a Lithuanian Russian has completely Estonian name and is played by a Finnish Swede, a Russian from Estonia has Yugoslav name and is played by a Finnish Swede etc. The outcome is communication in horrible Russian which was really difficult and annoying to listen. Genuine Russian or Estonian actors could have been used instead (some scenes were shot in Tallinn anyway). The main and recurring actors, however, were up to scratch as usual; pity that Joel Kinnaman's character (Frank Wagner) had only a few scenes.

In spite of the shortcomings mentioned above, a decent thriller anyway, no better or worse than the rest of Falk-related films.