The Hunters (1996)

Original title

Jägarna

Directed by

Kjell Sundvall

Genre

drama film, crime film, thriller film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

16

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 126 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police officer from Stockholm returns to his small hometown in northern Sweden. He investigates a string of reindeer poaching incidents and finds his own brother may be implicated.

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What happens

The Hunters (Swedish: Jägarna) is a Swedish thriller film directed by Kjell Sundvall, which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 31 January 1996. A police officer from Stockholm moves back to his hometown Älvsbyn in Norrland, in northern Sweden. He starts to work on a long-running reindeer poaching case and soon discovers that his brother is involved. The film was one of the biggest Swedish box-office hits ever, grossing over $6 million, and received two Guldbagge Awards for Best Direction (Kjell Sundvall) and Best Supporting Actor (Lennart Jähkel). It was also nominated for Best Actor (Rolf Lassgård), Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay. Hollywood wanted to make a remake of this film, and the American producers wanted it to be about cowboys in the Nevada desert, shooting wild horses for fun. Kjell Sundvall agreed to this at first but later changed his mind. A sequel, The Hunters 2, premiered in September 2011. A television continuation, The Hunters, of two seasons was broadcast from November 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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