Hamilton (1998 film)

Hamilton

Finnish DVD cover
Directed by Harald Zwart
Produced by Ingemar Leijonborg
Hans Lönnerheden
Screenplay by William Aldridge
Jonas Cornell
Based on Hamilton 
by Jan Guillou
Starring Peter Stormare
Lena Olin
Mark Hamill
Terry Carter
Music by Trond Bjerknes
Cinematography Jérôme Robert
Edited by Darek Hodor
Distributed by Buena Vista International
TV4 (Sweden)
Release dates
30 January 1998
Running time
128 minutes
186 minutes (TV version)
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
English
Russian

Hamilton is a 1998 Swedish action film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin. The film was edited with additional scenes into a 6 hour long TV-series in 2001. The 1998 single "No Man's Land" by Ardis was included in the soundtrack to this film.

Plot

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. Mark Hamill plays Mike Hawkins, the film's antagonist, an American former CIA officer working in Murmansk.

Cast

Production

The Statoil company paid 500,000 NOK ($USD67,000) for their logo to be displayed for three seconds in the film. Mark Hamill accidentally hit Peter Stormare during the last fight scene.

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