Solstorm is a Swedish thriller/drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 film released in 2007. It was filmed in Kiruna and was released in cinema on November 2, 2007. The film is based on the novel Sun Storm

Sun Storm

Sun Storm , published in the UK as The Savage Altar, is the first novel by Swedish crime-writer Åsa Larsson. The novel is the first in the Rebecka Martinsson series. It won Sweden's Best First Crime Novel award, and, on publication in the UK, was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International...

 written by author Åsa Larsson

Åsa Larsson

Åsa Larsson is a Swedish crime-writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson...

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Synopsis

Rebecka Martinsson (Izabella Scorupco

Izabella Scorupco

Izabella Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish actress and model, best known for her portrayal of Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.- Biography :...

) is an attorney who lives in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 that one day receives a call from a childhood friend who tells her that her brother has been murdered inside a church in the village of Kurravaara

Kurravaara

Kurravaara is village 12km north of Kiruna in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 57 inhabitants in 2005.It is the first village at the Torne River at Kallojärvi at 322 meter and is also close to the Rautas River....

 outside Kiruna

Kiruna

Kiruna is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lapland province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Kiruna Municipality Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lapland province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is...

. Martinsson now has to return to her hometown in Kiruna and get involved in the search for the killer.

Cast

• Izabella Scorupco
  Izabella Scorupco
  Izabella Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish actress and model, best known for her portrayal of Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.- Biography :...
  
   - Rebecka Martinsson
• Maria Sundbom - Sanna Strandgård
• Saga Larsson - Lova Strandgård
• Sandra Engström - Sara Strandgård
• Mikael Persbrandt
  Mikael Persbrandt
  Mikael Åke Persbrandt is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films he usually has lead roles and “tough guy” parts. He is perhaps most famous for his recurring role as the no-nonsense police officer Gunvald Larsson in the latest installment of the Martin Beck movies...
  
   - Thomas Söderberg
• Suzanne Reuter - Kristina Strandgård
• Krister Henriksson
  Krister Henriksson
  Jan Krister Allan Henriksson is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing Kurt Wallander in a series of television movies based on the novels by Henning Mankell.- Biography :...
  
   - Olof Strandgård
• Jakob Eklund
  Jakob Eklund
  Jakob Eklund is a Swedish film, television and stage actor. He is in a relationship with actress Marie Richardson, and has three children, named Tova, Klara, and Leon....
  
   - Måns Wenngren
• André Sjöberg
  André Sjöberg
  André Sjöberg is a Swedish actor who is best recognised for his part as Nils Geting in 2006 television miniseries Snapphanar. He also appeared as a mentally affected Tore in 2004 film Så som i himmelen and 2005 film Nära huden as Jojje.-External links:...
  
   - Viktor Strandgård
• Lena B. Eriksson - Anna-Maria Mella
• Göran Forsmark
  Göran Forsmark
  Rolf Göran Forsmark is a Swedish actor.Forsmark studied at NAMA in Malmö 1976–79 and works with films and theatre...
  
   - Sven-Erik Stålnacke
• Antti Reini
  Antti Reini
  - Cinema :* Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem * As White as in Snow * The Man Without a Past * Helmiä ja sikoja * Solstorm * Everlasting Moments * Stone's War * Angel - TV :...
  
  - Vesa Larsson