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Where was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo filmed?

2009 film, directed by Niels Arden Oplev.

  • Tabernas Desert

The story is set in Sweden, about 1,824 miles (2,935 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Sweden; Stockholm, Australia
Filmed in
Tabernas Desert
Distance
About 1,824 miles (2,935 km) between Sweden and the nearest filming location.
Distance
About 1,793 miles (2,886 km) between Stockholm, Australia and the nearest filming location.

About The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Released
2009
Director
Niels Arden Oplev
Cast
Michael NyqvistNoomi RapaceLena EndreSven-Bertil TaubeTehilla BladGunnel LindblomGeorgi StaykovEwa FrölingMarika Lagercrantz
Genre
ThrillerDramaCrime
Based on
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The story

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, co-owner of the magazine Millennium, loses a high-profile libel case against billionaire Hans-Erik Wennerström, resulting in a looming prison sentence.

Henrik Vanger, the elderly patriarch of the affluent Vanger family, hires Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, who had vanished in 1966 during a family gathering.

Salander struggles under the control of her abusive guardian, Nils Bjurman.

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