Hamilton (1998 film)

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Hamilton
Hamilton-suomi-dvd.PNG
Finnish DVD cover
Directed by Harald Zwart
Screenplay by William Aldridge
Jonas Cornell
Based on Hamilton
by Jan Guillou
Produced byIngemar Leijonborg
Hans Lönnerheden
Starring Peter Stormare
Lena Olin
Mark Hamill
Terry Carter
Cinematography Jérôme Robert
Edited by Darek Hodor
Music by Trond Bjerknes
Distributed by Buena Vista International
TV4 (Sweden)
Release date
  • 30 January 1998 (1998-01-30)
Running time
128 minutes
186 minutes (TV version)
CountrySweden
LanguagesSwedish
English
Russian

Hamilton is a 1998 Swedish action film directed by Harald Zwart and starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin. [1] The film was edited with additional scenes into a 3-hour-long TV series in 2001. The 1998 single "No Man's Land" by Ardis was included in the soundtrack to this film.

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Synopsis

Swedish military intelligence officers Carl Hamilton (Peter Stormare) and Åke Stålhandske (Mats Långbacka) are ordered to eliminate a band of Russian smugglers on the Russian tundra. The smugglers possess a nuclear missile, a 1.5 megaton SS-20, "enough to turn Paris, Washington or New York to ashes". What they do not know is that the smugglers they have intercepted were only a decoy, while the real missile was shipped to Libya. Mike Hawkins (Mark Hamill), the film's antagonist, is an American former CIA officer working in Murmansk, who is also looking for the nuclear missile and joins Hamilton's team.

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Production

The Statoil company paid 500,000 NOK ($USD67,000) for their logo to be displayed for three seconds in the film.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Hamilton". Apple TV . Retrieved 28 November 2024.