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"Man on the Roof"
1976
Directed by Bo Widerberg

Based on the bestselling novel The Abominable Man, this unconventional and influential thriller opens with the murder of a sadistic police officer in a Stockholm hospital. Homicide investigator Martin Beck (Carl Gustav Lindstedt) tracks a killer bent on taking revenge against the police. Director Bo Widerberg used hand-held cameras and other photojournalistic techniques rarely employed in detective films of the time in this visually stunning film. With Sven Wollter and Thomas Hellberg. "A first-rate thriller with an almost unbearably tense climax" (The Hollywood Reporter). Swedish with English subtitles.  110 minutes.

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