Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Acting
Trond Espen Seim's thousand-yard stare should be studied.
Cinematography
Bergen looks gorgeous and miserable, which is the point.
Writing
Tight plotting from Gunnar Staalesen's novel, no fat whatsoever.
Director
Erik Richter Strand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first Varg Veum film shot in Bergen proper, not Oslo doubling. The city finally embraced its noir reputation.
Staalesen's novels were considered unfilmable for decades—this adaptation proved Scandinavian TV budgets could finally match the bleakness of his prose.
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