The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

The Swedish-Danish crime thriller film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), was directed by Niels Arden Oplev and produced by Søren Stærmose. It is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. In December 2002, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of independent magazine Millennium, is sentenced to three months in prison after losing a libel case involving unproven allegations against billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström. To investigate Blomkvist’s background, Henrik Vanger, patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, hires Lisbeth Salander, a freelance surveillance agent and hacker. Later on, Vanger also enlists Blomkvist to look into the disappearance of his niece Harriet on Children’s Day in 1966.

According to Vanger, a family member is responsible for Harriet’s murder. Henrik clarifies that his brothers, Richard, Gottfried, and Harald, all had ties to the Nazi regime. While Richard passed away in 1940 and Gottfried drowned prior to Harriet’s disappearance, the remaining relatives are still considered suspects. In particular, Harald’s strong Nazi beliefs make him a person of interest. Additionally, Henrik reveals that he has been receiving pressed flowers on his birthday each year from an unknown sender–a tradition previously carried out by Harriet before she went missing.