Dödsklockan (1999 TV Movie) User Reviews

Thriller with suspense

[Mattias · 7/10 · 25 September 1999]

A traffic-accident is the startup for this thriller about blackmail and hunting in a rural community in the 1960s. It's a pleasure to see a number of the best Swedish actors at present together in such an enjoyable thriller. Keve Hjelm and Loa Falkman stands out as the best of the best.

Death tolls its bell - with good sense of reality & time

[qe_u · 8/10 · 4 January 2002]

Based on a good detective story (1963) by writer Kerstin Ekman, sensitively retold by Frykberg and Alfredson, combined with great music by the Flesh Quartet (aka Fläskkvartetten) and brilliant acting performances by several well-known Swedish actors, this is a first-rate movie with genuine provincial atmosphere and scenery of elk-hunting season. You should also be aware that most countryside folks in Sweden tend to distinguish between those who get to participate in the hunt and those who don't, and autumn is divided in two before and after this most important event of the year.

You never know when the bell tolls the hour for you, until it happens.

Very enjoyable. If you speak Swedish.

[Dan-342 · 20 October 1999]

Dödsklockan is an enjoyable thriller for those who understand Swedish. It is actually quite similar to Jägarna, but with less violence (which I think is a good thing) and a more convincing plot. I would like to add to the first review, that in addition to Loa and Keve, Anders Ekborg is also very good in Dödsklockan.