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The Man from Majorca (1984)

The Man from Majorca poster
Original title
Mannen från Mallorca
Directed by
Bo Widerberg
Genre
action film, crime film, thriller film, Christmas film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
15
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 53 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two Swedish police detectives investigate a brutal post office robbery that leads them into a web of corruption and political cover-ups. The case becomes personal as they uncover secrets linking the crime to powerful people.

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What happens

The Man from Majorca (Swedish: Mannen från Mallorca) is a 1984 Swedish crime thriller film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the novel The Pig Party by Leif G. W. Persson. The film stars Sven Wollter and Tomas von Brömssen. The novel has big similarities with the Geijer affair (a rumor that the Swedish minister of justice had been with prostitutes, that the Swedish police had knowledge of it and had informed the prime minister). Leif G.W. Persson lost his job at the police because talking to a journalist about his knowledge about the Geijer case, but denied in the preface of the book (Grisfesten) which he wrote soon after, that it had any connections to the affair. Widerberg took inspiration from the 1971 American film The French Connection, and The Man from Majorca share similarities with his previous thriller film: The Man on the Roof (1976). Sven Wollter won the award for Best Actor at the 20th Guldbagge Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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