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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Daniel Alfredson, 2009

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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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RATING

7.3

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Movie Poster: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Daniel Alfredson, 2009)

8.4

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Book Cover: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Stieg Larsson, 2007)

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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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

Poster of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the 2009 movie by Daniel Alfredson

Year

2009

Minutes

147

Movie Rate

7.30

Source: IMDb

Movie

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Original title: Luftslottet som sprängdes

Country: Sweden

Year: 2009

Length: 2h27m

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Cover of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the 2007 book by Stieg Larsson

Year

2007

Pages

566

Book Rate

8.44

S: Goodreads

Book

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Original title: Luftslottet som sprängdes

Country: Sweden

First published in: 2007

Length: 566 pages

Genre: Fiction

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Other screen adaptations of the book

TV Mini-Series poster
Millennium (2010)
TV Mini-Series by Niels Arden Oplev, Daniel Alfredson

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