The Hunters

1996 [SWEDISH]

Crime / Thriller

5
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 10115 10.1K

rape sibling relationship poacher rural area dirty cop nordic noir

Plot summary

A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...

Director

Kjell Sundvall Photo
Kjell Sundvall

Top cast

Thomas Hedengran Photo
Thomas Hedengran as Stig
Sara Arnia Photo
Sara Arnia as Ove's mother
Rolf Lassgård Photo
Rolf Lassgård as Erik Bäckström
Helena Bergström Photo
Helena Bergström as Anna Sivertsson
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.02 GB
1280*544
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles sv  
25 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 1
2.09 GB
1920*816
Swedish 5.1
NR
Subtitles sv  
25 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by crumpytv 7 / 10

Didn't Deliver

The drama gets the viewer involved, some of the scenes are intense.You work up a hatred for a group of bully, savage like locals, and local people hypocritically convincing themselves there is no local crime, actually turn a blind eye to it.What transpires is a drama which at the conclusion does not deliver the just desserts to the characters that it should.There are some appalling crimes and corruption, but apparently the justice system cannot take any action.The opening scene of the slaughter and butchery of reindeer is to be avoided.
Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 7 / 10

Dark and devastating Scandi crime

THE HUNTERS is a crime thriller about a Swedish cop who returns to his home town to discover a hotbed of crime and deceit as he pursues a reindeer poaching gang. This stars WALLANDER actor Rolf Lassgard and it does feel very much like a Henning Mankell story, by which I mean it's a classic slice of Scandi-crime dripping with atmosphere and suspense.The story that plays out is very nearly as icy as the chilly background in which the tale takes place. Certainly it's an exploration of the dark side of the human soul, with a typical police procedural in the first half giving way to something much more sinister and murderous in the second. Rolf Lassgard and Lennart Jahkel are excellent in the lead roles as a pair of brothers driven apart by living at opposite ends of the moral spectrum.The only reason I'm not a massive fan of this genre is that I don't like the way that the criminals are never made to really pay for their crimes, due to the limitations of the justice system (which are all too apparent here). I prefer the sort of film where the protagonist goes outside of the law in order to bring the bad guys some true justice. Still, THE HUNTERS trades crowd-pleasing vengeance for chilly realism, offering no easy answers or a perfect ending; it's as dark and quietly devastating as it gets.
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