Insomnia
In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, Swedish detectives investigate a teen's death. In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, a Swedish murder investigator is brought in to find…
Insomnia
In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, Swedish detectives investigate a teen's death. In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, a Swedish murder investigator is brought in to find an elusive killer. But when the officer accidentally kills his own partner and covers it up, a double sided game of cat-and-mouse ensues. —Daniel Jos. Leary The hardened Swedish detective Engström has seen many dead bodies in his professional life. So he is not shocked by the brutal murder of a schoolgirl that he has to solve together with his colleague Erik Vik in the north of Norway. Instead, he is troubled by the incessant brightness of the midnight sun, which prevents him from sleeping. Nevertheless, Engström manages to set a trap for the murderer, but he escapes. During the pursuit in the dense fog, Engström accidentally shoots his partner Vik. On the spur of the moment, he falsifies the evidence and creates the impression that Vik has also fallen victim to the killer. The police believe him, only his colleague Hilde Hagen has doubts. Meanwhile, a classmate of the first victim has put Engström on the trail of the writer Jon Holt. He openly admits to the detective that he is the perpetrator - because he believes he has him in his hands. After all, he saw Engström shoot his partner. So Engström tries to protect Holt from the police in order to save his own skin. But the confrontation with the killer is inevitable, as is the confrontation with Hilde Hagen, who is getting closer and closer to the truth about Vik's death. —Arte Two criminal investigators arrive in a town in the north of Norway to help the local police solve the murder of a young girl. A second murder sets the investigators off on an intense race where the stakes are as high for them as for their quarry. —Erwin van Moll <max404@hotmail.com> In Troms, Swedish cops aid the Norwegian police in hunting for the murderer of a girl, 15. They track a suspect; in the fog near the sea he seems to escape, wounding one policeman. One of the Swedes, Jonas Engström, fires his revolver, accidentally killing his partner. He then tries to cover it up. Over the next several days, the sleepless Engström manipulates the evidence of his partner's death more and more elaborately as he and others pursue the girl's killer. Then, he hears from the killer, who has observed him shoot his partner. Is a net closing in on Engström? Will someone police the police? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Insomnia
Crime,Mystery,Thriller
Film Details
In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, Swedish detectives investigate a teen's death. In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, a Swedish murder investigator is brought in to find an elusive killer. But when the officer accidentally kills his own partner and covers it up, a double sided game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
—Daniel Jos. Leary The hardened Swedish detective Engström has seen many dead bodies in his professional life. So he is not shocked by the brutal murder of a schoolgirl that he has to solve together with his colleague Erik Vik in the north of Norway.
Instead, he is troubled by the incessant brightness of the midnight sun, which prevents him from sleeping. Nevertheless, Engström manages to set a trap for the murderer, but he escapes. During the pursuit in the dense fog, Engström accidentally shoots his partner Vik.
On the spur of the moment, he falsifies the evidence and creates the impression that Vik has also fallen victim to the killer. The police believe him, only his colleague Hilde Hagen has doubts. Meanwhile, a classmate of the first victim has put Engström on the trail of the writer Jon Holt.
He openly admits to the detective that he is the perpetrator - because he believes he has him in his hands. After all, he saw Engström shoot his partner. So Engström tries to protect Holt from the police in order to save his own skin.
But the confrontation with the killer is inevitable, as is the confrontation with Hilde Hagen, who is getting closer and closer to the truth about Vik's death. —Arte Two criminal investigators arrive in a town in the north of Norway to help the local police solve the murder of a young girl. A second murder sets the investigators off on an intense race where the stakes are as high for them as for their quarry.
—Erwin van Moll <max404@hotmail.com> In Troms, Swedish cops aid the Norwegian police in hunting for the murderer of a girl, 15. They track a suspect; in the fog near the sea he seems to escape, wounding one policeman. One of the Swedes, Jonas Engström, fires his revolver, accidentally killing his partner.
He then tries to cover it up. Over the next several days, the sleepless Engström manipulates the evidence of his partner's death more and more elaborately as he and others pursue the girl's killer. Then, he hears from the killer, who has observed him shoot his partner.
Is a net closing in on Engström? Will someone police the police? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>.