| Millennium | |
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| Also known as | Millenniumtriologin |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Based on | Millennium by Stieg Larsson |
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| Country of origin | Sweden |
| Original language | Swedish |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 90 min |
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| Network | SVT1 |
| Release | 20 March – 24 April 2010 |
Millennium is a 2010 Swedish six-part television miniseries expanded from the 2009 film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest .
The miniseries was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies. It was broadcast on SVT1 from 20 March 2010 to 24 April 2010, and released in 2011 in DVD and Blu-ray in the US under the name Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition. Millennium was well received, winning a jury award for drama at Kristallen 2010, and an International Emmy Award for Best TV Movie or Miniseries in 2011.
The Millennium TV miniseries is a compilation of the three Swedish film adaptations, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest with extended scenes, adding more depth in both the stories and the characters. It was divided into 6 episodes total, with each episode of the series about 90 minutes long, [1] making the television series about 110 minutes longer than the movies. The series was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film, Film i Väst and ZDF Enterprises. It was broadcast on SVT1 from 20 March 2010 to 24 April 2010 [2] and released on a DVD and Blu-ray boxset titled Millennium Trilogy on 11 November 2011. [3] Music Box Home Entertainment released the English version in US on 6 December 2011 under the name Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition. [4]
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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| 1 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel | 20 March 2010 |
| 2 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel | 27 March 2010 |
| 3 | The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | Jonas Frykberg | 3 April 2010 |
| 4 | The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | Jonas Frykberg | 10 April 2010 |
| 5 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest | Daniel Alfredson | Ulf Rydberg | 17 April 2010 |
| 6 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest | Daniel Alfredson | Ulf Rydberg | 24 April 2010 |
This is a list of characters who appeared in the series.
| Character | Actor/Actress | Episodes | |||||
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | ||
| Mikael Blomkvist | Michael Nyqvist | Yes | |||||
| Lisbeth Salander | Noomi Rapace | Yes | |||||
| Erika Berger | Lena Endre | Yes | |||||
| Dragan Armanskij | Michalis Koutsogiannakis | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Christer Malm | Jacob Ericksson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| "Plague" | Tomas Köhler | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Malin Eriksson | Sofia Ledarp | Yes | |||||
| Annika Giannini | Annika Hallin | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Alexander Zalachenko | Georgi Staykov | Yes | |||||
| Miriam Wu | Yasmine Garbi | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Ronald Niedermann | Mikael Spreitz | Yes | |||||
| Nils Bjurman | Peter Andersson | Yes | |||||
| Holger Palmgren | Per Oscarsson | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Henrik Vanger | Sven-Bertil Taube | Yes | |||||
| Cecilia Vanger | Marika Lagercrantz | Yes | |||||
| Martin Vanger | Peter Haber | Yes | |||||
| Dirch Frode | Ingvar Hirdwall | Yes | |||||
| Janne Dahlman | David Dencik | Yes | |||||
| Gustaf Morell | Björn Granath | Yes | |||||
| Harriet Vanger | Ewa Fröling | Yes | |||||
| Brännlund | Fredrik Ohlsson | Yes | |||||
| Harald Vanger | Gösta Bredefeldt | Yes | |||||
| Isabella Vanger | Gunnel Lindblom | Yes | |||||
| Birger Vanger | Willie Andréason | Yes | |||||
| Otto Falk | Christian Fiedler | Yes | |||||
| Birgit Falk | Margareta Stone | Yes | |||||
| Enrico | Reuben Sallmander | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Paolo Roberto | Paolo Roberto | Yes | |||||
| Jan Bublanski | Johan Kylén | Yes | |||||
| Gunnar Björk | Ralph Carlsson | Yes | |||||
| Sonja Modig | Tanja Lorentzon | Yes | |||||
| Rikard Ekström | Niklas Hjulström | Yes | |||||
| Hans Faste | Magnus Krepper | Yes | |||||
| Niklas Eriksson | Daniel Gustavsson | Yes | |||||
| Jerker Holmberg | Donald Högberg | Yes | |||||
| Dr. Peter Teleborian | Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Evert Gullberg | Hans Alfredson | Yes | |||||
| Fredrik Clinton | Lennart Hjulström | Yes | |||||
| Torsten Edklinth | Niklas Falk | Yes | |||||
| Monica Figuerola | Mirja Turestedt | Yes | |||||
| Hallberg | Jan Holmquist | Yes | |||||
| Georg Nyström | Rolf Degerlund | Yes | |||||
| Birger Wadensjöö | Jacob Nordenson | Yes | |||||
| Dr. Anders Jonasson | Aksel Morisse | Yes | |||||
| Jonas Sandström | Johan Holmberg | Yes | |||||
| Judge | Ylva Lööf | Yes | |||||
| Sonny Nieminen | Pelle Blomander | Yes | |||||
| Hans-Åke Waltari | Nicklas Gustavsson | Yes | |||||
| Watchman | Jim Wiberg | Yes | |||||
Millennium won the award for "Årets TV-drama" ("TV Drama of the Year") at Kristallen 2010. [5] The series also won the award for "Best TV Movie or Miniseries" at the 39th International Emmy Awards. [6] Paul Pritchard of DVD Verdict praised the choice for reconfiguring the three films into an extended miniseries stating, "This change of format not only doesn't harm the material, it actually enhances it. Given the extra room to breathe, the films are both richer and a much more palatable proposition. Whether by chance or design, each of the films also has a natural break-off point, where each episode can draw to a close; this allows the viewer to take in each story in easily digestible chunks whilst ensuring they are left desperate to find out what happens next. It's also important to stress that the story still maintains its cinematic feel." [7] Thomas Spurlin of DVD Talk gave similar praise stating, "The Swedish film trilogy captures the character examination portion of the equation quite well; combining Noomi Rapace with generally well-adapted text (aside from a few character divergences and rewrites) renders a compelling cinematic exploration of the character, one similar in tone and impact to that in Larsson's text. The films aren't perfect in terms of their effectiveness as procedural thrillers or dramatic powerhouses, but the elements that they do get right elevate the content to something noteworthy." [8]
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Lena Endre is a Swedish actress of film and television, primarily in the Swedish and Norwegian markets, known for her parts in the Liv Ullmann film Trolösa (2000), and the Millennium series of films, based on the Stieg Larsson books. Endre made her English-language debut in 2012, in Paul Thomas Anderson's movie The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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