Jagarna

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Gerald H @RT00885100 12/29/2024 Beautifully filmed, outlandish story, but very very bad scripted dialogue for conveyor-belt clichee characters, all the same: one-dimensional adult hunters stuck in puberty. See more 04/13/2021 Probably Kjell Sundvall's most known film. We are in Northern Sweden, close to Finland and Norway. A Stockholm cop returns home to a small community. People got major hillbilly vibes as they drink at the pub just as much as they shoot deer in the woods. When some organized poaching gets big the police is also involved. When murders and rapings comes along as well things get major and our cop tries to save the day. This is Northern noire and a pretty good one. The lightning is great and the story is both rewarding and constantly moving as it's opening up. A character study and well acted film by especially Rolf Lassgård and Lennart Jähkel. Good film but never something really special. It's very safe but it works out well. 7 out of 10 operas. See more 04/02/2017 One of the best swedish thriller movies i've ever seen..! See more 02/22/2014 In Sweden we have an abundance of investigative crime-thrillers, but "Jägarna" or "The Hunters" Directed by Kjell Sundvall qualifies as one of the best. Although it was released about one month prior to Fargo you could almost call it the Swedish counterpart. Not that the two stories closely resembles each other when looking at the big picture. The similarities is in terms of tone, basic concept and the way the film makes hilarious fun of locals in a desolate area. After recovering from taking a bullet, in the line of duty as a police officer, Erik played Rolf Lassgård returns from the capital Stockholm to the small desolate Norrland's town where he grew up, located in one of the most northern parts of Sweden and there he attends his fathers funeral. Being shot has prompted Erik to start working as a police officer in Norrland and he moves in with his brother Leif played by Lennart Jähkel, in a house that they both inherit from their father. The first assignment Erik gets is to solve a series of organized deer and Elk poaching cases, but he soon remembers how difficult and unpopular it can be to perform investigations in a town where everyone knows each other, and as the investigation moves forward the poachers gets increasingly pressured which causes the situation to spiral out of control. Director Kjell Sundvall hasn't been at all afraid that his target audience will be turned of by violence, graphic scenes or how honest he is when depicting the amount of racism that runs rampant in some parts of the country. Deer poaching was and still is a large problem in Sweden since a lot of these deers belong to and help make a living for an ethnic minority of natives called Sami people. Adressing a real issue and not being afraid to take it one step further is part of what makes this film better than most other Swedish films in the genre. Rolf Lassgård delivers a good performance as the main protagonist, Erik, but the best performance of the film comes from Lennart Jähkel in the role as Erik's brother, Leif. All smaller performances comes from locals of Norrland so the dialect is always spot on. The only major problem with the film is the main female character, a prosecutor named Anna played by Helena Bergström. The problem has nothing to do with her performance, but with the fact that the character seems to have been squeezed into the story without any purpose, just for the sake of having a female character, apart from that "Jägarna" is a very inventive, violent and capturing crime-thriller. See more 07/21/2012 Petite virà (C)e chez les rednecks Suà (C)dois (je prà (C)fère à la tà (C)là (C) que dans la vraie vie) See more 01/01/2012 A good Thriller centering on a hunting environment in northern Sweden. See more Read all reviews

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