Family on the brink
It has been more than thirty years since Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), head of the influential industrialist family Vanger, last saw his favorite niece Harriet. She disappeared during a family reunion - without leaving a trace, without any clue that could provide information about her whereabouts. Only the pressed flowers, which Henrik receives every year for his birthday, give the now 82-year-old patriarch in his worst fear right: Harriet must have happened something bad then. She herself had given Henrik a pressed blossom behind glass before she disappeared; it must be her murderer who now maintains the ritual in infallible regularity.
Rose Larsson's "delusion": Everyone seems suspicious
Henrik Vanger desperately wants to know what really happened then. He hires the investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and invites him to stay for a few weeks at the family home of the Vanger family and to research locally. Together with the unscrupulous hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), from whom Blomkvist unexpectedly receives help, he enters a dark past in which every one of the Vanger family seems suspicious of having committed something cruel and completely unbearable ...
"Verblendung" is the film adaptation of the eponymous first volume of the "Millennium Trilogy", which made the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson in one fell swoop to one of the most successful authors of recent years. Over 15 million copies of the series have been sold so far; "Verblendung" itself was the best-selling book in the EU in 2008. But Stieg Larsson himself should not live to see this success: He died at the age of fifty in November 2004 as a result of a heart attack, his literary career was still at the beginning. Three of a series of ten planned novels had already been completed, and the plot of books four to six was also confirmed. Whether these works will ever be published, however, is unclear: an inheritance dispute prevents the continuation of this worldwide success so far.
We waited with excitement for the film - and it was worth it: "Blinding" is a dark movie thriller with perfectly selected actors (Noomi Rapace is the Swedish discovery!), Scary scenes, an exciting plot and a tightrope walk on the edge of Swedish society , Absolutely worth seeing! In 2010, "damnation" and "forgiveness" come to our cinemas.
