The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (, literally "Men who hate women") is a 2009 Swedish drama thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Swedish author/journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book in the trilogy known as the "Millennium" series, published in Sweden in 2005. By August 2009, it had been sold to 25 countries outside Scandinavia and had been seen by more than 6 million people in the countries where it was already released. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi
The Girl Who Played with Fire "The Bookseller" magazine) the first and only translated novel to be number one in the UK hardback chart. The novel is formally divided into a prologue followed by four parts. The prologue of the book opens with a girl captured and restrained inside a dark room by an unidentified male. To cope with being captured, she mentally replays a past episode when she threw a milk carton filled with gasoline onto another man inside a car and tossed an ignited match onto him. After finishing the job on the Wennerström affair (described in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"), Lisbeth