Sista kontraktet (1998)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Kjell Sundvall

Writers:

John W. Grow (novel)
Mats Arehn (writer) ...

Release Date:

6 March 1998 (Sweden)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Sveavägen/Tunnelgatan. 28 februari 1986. Kl. 23.21

Plot:

Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Assassin | Prime Minister | Police | Sweden

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Mikael Persbrandt	...	Roger Nyman, the secret police
Michael Kitchen	...	John Gales alias Ray Lambert, the assasin
Pernilla August	...	Nina Nyman, Roger Nyman's wife
Reine Brynolfsson	...	Bo Ekman, policeofficer and Roger Nyman's best friend
Bjørn Floberg	...	Tom Nielsen, the hitman
Jacqueline Ramel	...	Helene Salonen, the secret police
Cecilia Ljung	...	Holmgren, Lisa, journalist
Joakim Forslund	...	Markus Nyman, Roger's child
Julia Brådhe-Dehnisch	...	Josefin Nyman (as Julia Dehnisch)
Agnes Granberg	...	Sara Nyman, Roger's child
Johan Lindell	...	Bernhard Lange, the secret police
Mathias Henrikson	...	Peter Bark
Donald Högberg	...	Appelqvist, the secret police
Per Ragnar	...	KG, the secret police
Paul Birchard	...	Bertram Norris

Also Known As:

Den siste kontrakten (Norway)
The Last Contract
Viimeinen sopimus (Finland)

Runtime:

Argentina:115 min | Australia:109 min | France:114 min | Japan:110 min | Sweden:107 min

Country:

Sweden | Norway | Finland

Language:

Swedish | English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cape Town, South Africa

Company:

Eurimages

Trivia:

This movie was originally in pre-production in 1993 when producer Börje Hansson led hands on the still un-released novel but wasn't able to find a proper director.

Quotes:

Roger Nyman, the secret police: You don't kill prime ministers in this country!

Movie Connections:

References Goldfinger (1964)

A brilliant movie, with a standard but good and complex plot that changes all the time.

A brilliant movie, with a standard but good and complex plot that changes all the time. (Even better than any of the Swedish Hamilton and also the Beck movies where the main actor Mikael Persbrandt plays a main support role.) The plot is built upon the assasination of Prime Minster Olof Palme. One pregnant error in the script concerns the Swedish political party EAP which is used as one of the scape goats. It never was a right-wing nazi party as shown in the movie. Still, the movie is one of the best thrillers I have seen in a bout one year. It is better than the best US movies, such as "Enemy of the State" due to the higher complexity and the high social realism which is more typical of European movies.