Hamilton (1998 film)

Hamilton
Finnish DVD cover
Directed by	Harald Zwart
Screenplay by	William Aldridge Jonas Cornell
Based on	Hamilton by Jan Guillou
Produced by	Ingemar Leijonborg Hans Lönnerheden
Starring	Peter Stormare Lena Olin Mark Hamill Terry Carter
Cinematography	Jérôme Robert
Edited by	Darek Hodor
Music by	Trond Bjerknes
Distributed by	Buena Vista International TV4 (Sweden)
Release date	30 January 1998 (1998-01-30)
Running time	128 minutes 186 minutes (TV version)
Country	Sweden
Languages	Swedish English Russian

Hamilton is a 1998 Swedish action film directed by Harald Zwart and starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin. The film was edited with additional scenes into a 3-hour-long TV series in 2001. The 1998 single "No Man's Land" by Ardis was included in the soundtrack to this film.

Synopsis

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. Mike Hawkins (Mark Hamill), the film's antagonist, is an American former CIA officer working in Murmansk, who is also looking for the nuclear missile and joins Hamilton's team.

Cast

• Peter Stormare as Carl Hamilton
• Lena Olin as Tessie
• Mark Hamill as Mike Hawkins
• Mats Långbacka as Åke Stålhandske
• Terry Carter as Texas Slim

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.

External links

• Hamilton at IMDb
• Hamilton at Rotten Tomatoes
• Hamilton at the Swedish Film Institute Database