A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him. Plot by Mattias Pettersson.
Acting
Gösta Ekman's world-weary Beck, too tired for heroics
Cinematography
Gota Kanal: beautiful, bleak, unforgiving
Writing
Sjöwall/Wahlöö source material, the godparents of Nordic noir
Director
Daniel Alfredson
Gösta Ekman
Martin Beck
Kjell Bergqvist
Lennart Kollberg
Rolf Lassgård
Gunvald Larsson
Niklas Hjulström
Benny Skacke
Lena Nilsson
Åsa Thorell
Ingvar Andersson
Per Månsson
Torgny Anderberg
Evald Hammar
Jacob Nordenson
Folke Bengtsson
Anita Ekström
Inga Beck
Tova Magnusson
Putte Beck
Agneta Ekmanner
Greta Hjelm
P.G. Hylén
Kristiansson
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Colonel's wife
Wallis Grahn
Göta Isaksson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Daniel Alfredson's feature debut; he'd later direct 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' TV series and 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' film.
The Martin Beck novels invented Nordic noir—Sjöwall and Wahlöö were Marxist journalists who used crime fiction to critique Swedish welfare state complacency.
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