| Brief Description: | Based on the bestselling novel The Abominable Man, this unconventional
and influential thriller opens with the murder of a sadistic police
officer in a Stockholm hospital. Homicide investigator Martin Beck
(Carl Gustav Lindstedt) tracks a killer bent on taking revenge against
the police. Director Bo Widerberg used hand-held cameras and other
photojournalistic techniques rarely employed in detective films of the
time in this visually stunning film. With Sven Wollter and Thomas
Hellberg. "A first-rate thriller with an almost unbearably tense
climax" (The Hollywood Reporter). Swedish with English subtitles. |
