Airdate: The Girl Who Played With Fire
SBS will screen this Swedish thriller and sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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This week SBS will screen The Girl Who Played with Fire, a 2009 Swedish thriller and sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
This had a cinema release in some territories, but plays as 2 parts this week and next.
It will be followed by The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest in March.
This Swedish Emmy Award-winning television drama is based on the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling Millennium series.
Computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is wanted for a triple murder. All three victims are connected to a trafficking exposé about to be published in Mikael Blomqvist’s magazine, Millennium, and Lisbeth’s fingerprints are on the weapon.
Lisbeth vanishes to avoid capture by the police. Believing in her innocence, Mikael tries to clear her name, using all his resources. During his investigation, Mikael discovers Lisbeth’s past – a terrible story of abuse and trauma growing up in the Swedish care system.
He also learns that she is far more entangled in his initial investigation of the sex industry than he could ever imagine.
10:30pm Tuesday February 16 SBS.
4 Responses
Whats this? SBS are broadcasting foreign movies?? What a miracle!!
I suppose its far far far too much to ask for it to be showing in its original language with subtitles, right?
David these have been on sbs a few times now(the theatrical cuts of the film, mind you), the ones sbs are airing are the longer mini series.
IF you check the EPG there is no RPT denoted. I will raise this with SBS as I feel there have been a few of these going on.
I came here to say something similar. Pretty sure the film has been on before at least twice. Think this is actually Parts 3 and 4 of the 6-part Millenium miniseries.
As for the EPG not denoting it as a repeat – in this case that is technically correct (assuming that the miniseries hasn’t been on SBS before). However, as I have prev noted, SBS have a bad habit of not tagging shows that are repeats.