Mannen på taket (1976)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Bo Widerberg

Writers:

Maj Sjöwall (novel)
Per Wahlöö (novel)

Release Date:

April 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

The police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Hospital | Police Brutality | Murder | Gunman

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt	...	Martin Beck (as Carl Gustaf Lindstedt)
Sven Wollter	...	Lennart Kollberg
Thomas Hellberg	...	Gunvald Larsson
Håkan Serner	...	Einar Rönn
Ingvar Hirdwall	...	Åke Eriksson (as Ingvar Hirdvall)
Bellan Roos	...	Mrs. Eriksson
Gus Dahlström	...	Mr. Eriksson
Harald Hamrell	...	Stefan Nyman
Birgitta Valberg	...	Mrs. Nyman
Carl-Axel Heiknert	...	Palmon Harald Hult (as Carl Axel Heiknert)
Torgny Anderberg	...	Malm
Folke Hjort	...	Melander
Eva Remaeus	...	Mrs. Kollberg
Gunnel Wadner	...	Mrs. Beck

Also Known As:

Man on the Roof (USA)
The Man on the Roof (UK)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Colour:

Colour (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Centralbadet, Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Trivia:

The movie was shut down for one week in order to have Widerberg re-organize his crew after the DoP was taken sick.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Beck climbs to the roof, the ladder he supposedly just put up is clearly secured to the railing it's leaned against.

Quotes:

Malm: [a police helicopter has been shot down by the man on the roof] He shot down the helicopter.
Gunvald Larsson: So that's your conclusion?

Movie Connections:

Featured in "100 höjdare: Tidernas på ett eller annat sätt mest spektakulära debuter (#3.2)" (????)

Soundtrack:

Fjällbruden

One of the best Action/Crime films ever made!!!

WOW!!! Before I saw this I was not expecting it to be so very good(just another cop-drama)but what i got was a masterpiece.Wideberg is not so famous international but in Sweden he counts as one of the best directors ever.First of all I would to say that technical this film is perfect.All the way from the masterful start to the un expected ending.

But not only that,the characters in this film are fantastic.And the acting is superb.It´s also famous because of it was the first real Action/crime film in Sweden and I still think that it is the best.A perfect film:Both very exciting and very realistic.5/5