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The Man Who Played With Fire
Almost 30 years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme's assassination, the chance discovery of Steig Larssons work on the mystery convinces one man the answers are within reach.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KdJh3PzIgI
Since his untimely death at just 50 years of age, #StiegLarsson has become one of the world’s most famous authors. His Millennium Trilogy novels – #TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo and its sequels – have sold more than 90 million copies worldwide and spawned multiple film adaptations. This fascinating documentary paints the little-known, and equally compelling portrait of the man before the books whose life was replete with the intrigue and danger that fuelled his novels. Larsson’s obsessive pursuit of tracking extremist far right and neo-Nazi groups as an investigative journalist made him an expert in a field that’s only grown more politically relevant, both in his native Sweden and beyond. Defying intimidation and death threats, he warned of the disturbing growth of the far right as a political force. With unprecedented access to the author’s meticulously researched and politically charged archives, as well as interviews with his life partner and colleagues, Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played with Fire reveals a man who was determined to protect the endangered principles of democracy and freedom at any cos
Sky documentaries Sunday 2am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KdJh3PzIgISince his untimely death at just 50 years of age, #StiegLarsson has become one of the world’s most famous authors. His Millennium Trilogy novels – #TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo and its sequels – have sold more than 90 million copies worldwide and spawned multiple film adaptations. This fascinating documentary paints the little-known, and equally compelling portrait of the man before the books whose life was replete with the intrigue and danger that fuelled his novels. Larsson’s obsessive pursuit of tracking extremist far right and neo-Nazi groups as an investigative journalist made him an expert in a field that’s only grown more politically relevant, both in his native Sweden and beyond. Defying intimidation and death threats, he warned of the disturbing growth of the far right as a political force. With unprecedented access to the author’s meticulously researched and politically charged archives, as well as interviews with his life partner and colleagues, Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played with Fire reveals a man who was determined to protect the endangered principles of democracy and freedom at any cos
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The Man Who Played With Fire is a tense, thriller-like documentary that follows former Swedish diplomat Jan Stocklassa as he delves into the assassination of Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.
As part of his journey, Stocklassa leans on the detective work of author Stieg Larsson (The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo), who spent decades investigating the crime before his own death in 2004, aged 50.
Despite its strong Scandinavian flavour, the series is primarily in English. “Where appropriate, we interview some Swedish subjects in their native language [and use English subtitles],” says Driscoll. “But due to the scope and locations, English worked best to reach the widest international audience.”
There were several witnesses, yet despite multiple investigations, incredible lapses in procedure and evidence gathering mean that the public have never been given a satisfactory answer as to who killed Palme.
“What our series will show is how the investigative work of Stieg Larsson contained valuable clues and evidence that official investigations overlooked.”
Driscoll says the series is “elevated above traditional true-crime documentaries as it explores the global politics involved in Olof Palme’s assassination, while balancing two captivating narratives about Palme and Stieg Larsson”.
Furthermore, he adds, premium factual content from established producers like Raw is always in demand. “It’s visually impressive, narratively captivating and offers exclusive access and revelations that will have viewers hooked.”
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/international/the-man-who-played-with-fire/5180926.article
Stieg Larsson is most widely known in the U.S. as the author of the Millennium series. But long before writing his thrillers, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which were published posthumously, Larsson was a journalist, an independent researcher and an activist seeking to expose the danger of white-nationalist, right-wing extremist, and neo-Nazi groups in Sweden.
While others waved away such groups as marginal and not to be taken seriously, Larsson saw almost 40 years ago how their racist, sexist and otherwise violent rhetoric had the potential to become legitimized. And his predictions as to how they could — and would — attain power have been visible all over the world as populist and nationalist regimes and parties gain legitimacy.
Larsson, his politics and his journalistic research are at the center of a new book by Swedish journalist Jan Stocklassa, The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin, translated by Tara F. Chase. For years, Larsson dedicated his free time to, among other causes, trying to solve the mystery of Sweden's most well-known political assassination, that of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. Unlike the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which is officially solved, Palme's is not. And the conspiracy theories surrounding Palme's assassination are as numerous and alternatively far-fetched and disturbingly plausible as those circulating about JFK's. Gaining access to Larsson's archival material — maintained by the anti-racist magazine Expo he founded in 1995 — Stocklassa closely examines the work Larsson did on the Palme case and picks up the thread where it was left off, delving even deeper into the mystery.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/766391131/in-the-man-who-played-with-fire-stieg-larsson-is-brought-to-life-again
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stieg_larsson_the_man_who_played_with_fire/reviews