Stockholm Marathon

19941994
1h 27m

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5.4/10

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Crime Drama Thriller

The gardener decides to avenge the death of his mentally disturbed wife by killing the men he considers responsible. One of them is a pop star that takes part in a great marathon race in Sto... Read allThe gardener decides to avenge the death of his mentally disturbed wife by killing the men he considers responsible. One of them is a pop star that takes part in a great marathon race in Stockholm. While the killer methodically prepares and patiently awaits his victim, Inspector ... Read allThe gardener decides to avenge the death of his mentally disturbed wife by killing the men he considers responsible. One of them is a pop star that takes part in a great marathon race in Stockholm. While the killer methodically prepares and patiently awaits his victim, Inspector Beck and his men must determine the exact location of the shooting on 42 kilometers of pat... Read all

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- Peter Keglevic
Writers
- Maj Sjöwall(novel "Terroristerna": freely adapted from)
- Per Wahlöö(novel "Terroristerna": freely adapted from)
- Rainer Berg(screenplay)
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Gösta Ekman in Stockholm Marathon (1994)

Kjell Bergqvist and Rolf Lassgård in Stockholm Marathon (1994)

Trivia
Some scenes were actually shot during the Stockholm Marathon of 1993. Some runners were scared because the actors were running around with (fake) handguns.

Connections
Follows Brandbilen som försvann (1993)

Soundtracks
Marathon of Life
Performed by Thomas Anders
Written by Margaret Harris (uncredited), Thomas Anders (uncredited), Christian de Walden (uncredited), Ralf Stemmann (uncredited)

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7/10

A bit protracted and outworn, but watchable

/the following refers to all Beck-films with Gösta Ekman, 1993-1994/

Mr. Ekman is a famous Swedish theater and film actor of many years, although he is not known much outside Scandinavia. His portrayal of top detective Martin Beck is a mixture of Colombo and Morse, but Swedish backwardness makes him sometimes too dull and predictable, his workmates are more vivid persons, particularly Lennart Kollberg and Gunvald Larsson, performed by Kjell Bergqvist and Rolf Lassgård, respectively. As the script depicts the life in Sweden in the 1960ies (according to novels by famous Swedish crime authors Sjöwall and Wahlöö), then it is a rather masculine society without much immigrants and not too serious crime - in comparison with the society from 1980ies onwards.

The rate of my interest in those 6 films was almost the same, I liked Roseanna least. Usually I like films where the killer is not revealed in the beginning - with very few exception when cat-and-mouse play can be eager to watch. With the Scandinavian pace the latter is seldom the case, most offender are lonely people with long-time personal issues.

By the way, there is quite a mess with Swedish titles translated into English, various and inconsistent versions available.

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