Of Norwegian and German production, the film is now being released in worldwide distribution and is filling the movie theaters this summer in Europe and North America. Based on the novel by the Norwegian writer
Jo Nesbø, who is known for his “black” literature and his music, this movie promises a thrilling and fast action in the frame of a murder plot in the current Norway directed by the Norwegian filmmaker
Morten Tyldum.”
Headhunters” tells the story of the headhunter Roger Brown (
Aksel Hennie) who, in order to maintain his fast paced life, is engaged in stealing artworks. Taking advantage of his work contacts as the agent of future executive positions, Brown enters into his customers homes replacing their valuable art works by cheap copies. In his urgent need to earn as much money as possible to continue maintaining his relation with his beautiful girlfriend Diana and the high social status both of them are used to, Brown faces a huge problem when one of his victims turns out to be an ex-mercenary of the army (
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) specialized in finding and pursuing people by GPS. From this incidence on Brown’s life becomes a treadmill of dangers, infidelities and murders where the only way to stay alive is survive by oneself.
The action of the film, directed majestically by Tyldum, is exciting and doesn’t give break to the spectator. Remains to be seen if in the coming years we can expect more quality films like “Headhunters” from this director and the films producers, among which we could find also the production company Yellowbird who made possible the Millennium series, based on the best seller novels by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
The screenplay adaptation of “Headhunters” is signed by the script writers Ulf Ryberg and Lars Gudmestad and the movie was shot in Norway in collaboration with Nordisk Film and the production companies Frifilm, ARD Degeto Film and the aforementioned Yellowbird.
The film is shot in Norwegian, Danish, Russian and Spanish, and has already raised only about 1,196,752 U.S. dollars only in the United States. Not at all an insignificant box office figure for a Nordic film!
In the last month of April was released in the U.S. and UK the nordic thriller “Headhunters” (“Hodejegerne” in Norwegian).
