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Without a trace, sixteen-year-old Harriet Vanger vanishes from the island that houses her influential family. Her disappearance continues to haunt her family for forty years, so an old and distraught Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) calls the once-renowned journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nygvist), to investigate the decades-old mystery...
...searches for the truth, he meets Lisbeth Salamander (Noomi Rapace), a dangerous girl that has been hacking into his computer since the day he lost a libel trial. The two team-up to solve the mystery surrounding the secretive Vanger family, and their combined efforts eventually lead them to the unsolved crimes of a serial killer...
...twisted tragedy of the morally bankrupt Vanger dynasty, a fallen and disgraced journalist, and a girl who has experienced every horror one could imagine is deeply engaging. Despite the slightly lacking plot development, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is a near triumph...
...book. (It's also the first of a franchise; cinematic adaptations of Larsson's two sequels were also released in Europe last year.) The basics are there: a disgraced journalist named Mikael Blomkvist (played just right by Swedish star Michael Nyqvist) is hired by an elderly industrialist, Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), to investigate the disappearance of his 16-year old niece Harriet 40 years ago on a remote island. Henrik believes Harriet was killed by a member of her large and thoroughly nasty family and he wants Blomkvist to figure out whodunit. Salander ends up helping Blomkvist and falling...
...appearance of Adolf Stern 2M is being promoted by Milton I. Vanger, teaching fellow in History, under the sponsorship of the Dunster House Committee...