
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Daniel Alfredson, 2009
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, 2007
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is a movie directed by Daniel Alfredson in 2009 and based on the book of the same name by Stieg Larsson, first published in 2007. The movie features Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Anders Ahlbom, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, and others.
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Storyline
The film begins at the conclusion of The Girl Who Played with Fire. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who Salander helped on a previous case, resumes his efforts to clear her of several murder charges, knowing that she was framed by the Section, a group within the Swedish Security Service that illegally sheltered Zalachenko after he defected from the Soviet Union.
Movie vs Book

Year
2009
Minutes
147
Movie Rate
7.30
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Original title: Luftslottet som sprängdes
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Country: Sweden
Year: 2009
Length: 2h27m
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Year
2007
Pages
566
Book Rate
8.44
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Book
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Original title: Luftslottet som sprängdes
Author: Stieg Larsson
Country: Sweden
First published in: 2007
Length: 566 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Millennium
Other screen adaptations of the book
TV Mini-Series by Niels Arden Oplev, Daniel Alfredson
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