Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

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Film Cast:

• Harry Hole: Michael Fassbender
• Katrine Bratt: Rebecca Ferguson
• Rakel: Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Mathias: Jonas Karlsson
• Oleg: Michael Yates
• Gunnar Hagen: Ronan Vibert
• Arve Støp: J.K. Simmons
• Rafto: Val Kilmer
• Vetlesen: David Dencik
• DC Svenson: Toby Jones
• Birte Becker: Genevieve O’Reilly
• Filip Becker: James D’Arcy
• Josephine Becker: Jeté Laurence
• Frederik Aasen: Adrian Dunbar
• Sylvia Ottersen / Ane Pedersen: Chloë Sevigny
• DC Magnus Skarre: Jakob Oftebro
• Boy: Leonard Samuelsson Heinemann
• Boy’s Mother: Sofia Helin
• Uncle Jonas: Peter Dalle
• Mrs. Bendiksen: Anne Reid
• Beautiful Girl: Silvia Busuioc
• Teacher: Jamie Michie
• Beautiful Girl’s Mother: Irina Kara
• Factory Manager: Ben Abell
• Mould Man: Alec Newman
• Edda: Jamie Clayton
• Linda: Dinita Gohil
• Arve Støp’s Aide: Roger Barclay
• Selection Committee Chairwoman: Alwyne Taylor
• Musician: Lars Berrum
• Boy 2: Max de Asmundis
• Mould Man 2: Jack Roth
• Celebrity Wife (uncredited): Charlot Daysh
• Guest in Tuxedo (uncredited): Jan Lindwall
• Volunteer (uncredited): Aurora Nossen
• Detective Campbell (uncredited): Johnny Otto
• Boy in the Train (uncredited): Harris Reiz
• Male Spectator (uncredited): Anthony Mark Streeter
• Arve Støp’s Fashion Guest (uncredited): Marius Tveit
• Rolf Ottersen (uncredited): Bjørn Iversen
• Neighbor (uncredited): Stian Werme
• Bar Guest (uncredited): Stani Lolo Jean
• Arve Støp’s Fashion Guest (uncredited): Ali Al-Tobi
• Hockey Spectator (uncredited): Thomas Gangstad
• Bar Guest (uncredited): Martin Grid Toennesen
• Neighbor on Crime Scene (uncredited): Mikael Ulrichsen
• Girl at Ulriken (uncredited): Karoline Stemre

Film Crew:

• Production Design: Maria Djurkovic
• Casting: Jina Jay
• Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
• Director of Photography: Dion Beebe
• Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese
• Producer: Tim Bevan
• Producer: Eric Fellner
• Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
• Original Music Composer: Marco Beltrami
• Second Unit Director of Photography: John Andreas Andersen
• Executive Producer: Liza Chasin
• Foley Artist: Peter Burgis
• Editor: Claire Simpson
• Producer: Robyn Slovo
• Art Direction: Robert Cowper
• Screenplay: Matthew Michael Carnahan
• Sound Recordist: Martin Trevis
• Screenplay: Hossein Amini
• Director: Tomas Alfredson
• ADR Mixer: Nick Baldock
• First Assistant Director: Mark Hopkins
• First Assistant Director: Alex Oakley
• Producer: Peter Gustafsson
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Blake Leyh
• Screenplay: Søren Sveistrup
• Novel: Jo Nesbø
• Co-Producer: Richard Hewitt
• Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Mattias Tobiasson
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Saul Metzstein
• Second Assistant Director: Gayle Dickie
• Camera Operator: Odd Hynnekleiv
• Camera Operator: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen
• Location Manager: Shahbaz Aynoddin
• Art Direction: Astrid Strøm Astrup
• Stunts: Rachelle Beinart
• Storyboard Designer: Daniel Kong
• Supervising Art Director: Ben Collins
• Dialect Coach: William Conacher
• Stunts: Kai Kolstad Rødseth
• Foley Mixer: Glen Gathard
• First Assistant Editor: Jamie Turpin
• Stunt Coordinator: Paul Herbert
• Electrician: Stig Tvenge
• Property Master: Chris Cull
• Unit Production Manager: Jennifer Wynne
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Dowson
• Publicist: Sasha Gibson
• Key Makeup Artist: Peta Dunstall
• Gaffer: Thor Erik Løkken
• Sound Effects Editor: Phil Lee
• Prosthetic Designer: Love Larson
• Art Direction: Linda Janson
• Visual Effects Producer: Noga Alon Stein
• Orchestrator: Emma Louise
• Script Supervisor: Jeanette McGrath
• Casting Associate: Jessie Frost
• Visual Effects Editor: Edd Gamlin
• Camera Operator: Espen Zubi
• ADR Mixer: Simon Diggins
• Makeup Artist: Vidar Svendsen
• Drone Operator: Andreas Bru Eide
• Executive Producer: Niclas Salomonsson
• ADR Mixer: Rob Davidsson
• Executive Producer: Amelia Granger
• Conceptual Design: Jill Beecher
• Location Scout: Per Henry Borch
• Makeup Designer: Emma Scott
• Special Effects Supervisor: Stefano Pepin
• Painter: Sandro Ercolini
• Foley Artist: Zoe Freed
• Carpenter: Geir M.V. Andersen
• Gaffer: Jarl Grantin Johnsen
• Set Costumer: Helene Arnesen
• Special Effects Supervisor: Jason McCameron
• Third Assistant Director: Grant Butler
• Lighting Technician: Henrik Efskin
• Drone Operator: Daniell Ashby
• Production Coordinator: Deryn Stafford
• Location Manager: Njål Lambrechts
• Carpenter: Grzegorz Bodziony
• Camera Operator: Michael Berglund
• Key Grip: Anders Eide
• Line Producer: Tor Arne Øvrebø
• Hairstylist: Louise Kjær
• Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Oskar Wallroth
• Third Assistant Director: Hilde Smukkestad Lavik
• Painter: Cristina Cecili
• Property Master: Kedy Hassani
• Prop Designer: Andrew Hughes
• Draughtsman: Øyvind Langdalen
• Foley Editor: Michael S. Head
• Special Effects: George Buckleton
• Digital Compositors: Susanna Riccio
• Visual Effects Supervisor: James Roberts
• Digital Compositors: Lewis Wright
• Stunts: Christel Jørgensen
• Stunts: James O’Daly
• Electrician: Gianmarco Donaggio
• Aerial Camera: Per Christian Dyrø
• Drone Operator: Thomas J. Elliott
• Camera Operator: Robert Egron Erstad
• Lighting Technician: Henrik Formoe
• Electrician: Jon-André Hakvåg
• Electrician: Johan Kuurne
• Electrician: Miki Schack Mikkelsen
• Electrician: David Odstad
• Electrician: Johannes Selvaag
• Grip: Pål André Sterud
• Key Grip: Michael Tøt
• Electrician: Theresa Winkelmann
• Location Manager: Nil Borg
• Location Manager: Harriet Løkensgard
• Location Scout: Eirik Ohna
• Location Manager: Håvard Schei
• Production Coordinator: Heather Newman
• Stand In: Heidi Sandbukten
• Unit Manager: Pål Tangen
• ADR Mixer: Andy Welker
• ADR Mixer: Sebastian Vaskio
• Hairstylist: Maria Zahl
• Carpenter: Frank Collins
• Makeup Artist: Fiona Chaffey

Movie Reviews:

• Gimly: Honestly, it should probably be shown in one of your early lessons in a film class. Slap on any given scene and ask the question “Now which decisions did you spot that should never have been made in this or any movie?”
• Honestly the only reason it even comes away with a whopping(!) one-and-a-half stars, is that minute to minute, _The Snowman_ is so bizarre, that it actually reaches levels of laugh-out-loud funny.
• _Final rating:★½: – Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._
• Charles Tatum: This infamous flop is a pretty-to-look-at mess of confusion, tension, and some very good performances. In Norway, Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) and his new bright-eyed partner Katrine (Rebeecca Ferguson) are investigating a series of disappearances that have been going on for years, some centered around philanthropist Arve Stop (J.K. Simmons). A calling card, the titular snowman, is left at the crime scenes, and are the signature of some anonymous letters Hole is starting to receive. Harry and Katrine go through the motions, taking advantage of the police department’s new piece of technical marvel equipment. Harry also involves himself in his former girlfriend Rakel’s (Charlotte Gainsbourg) life, and the couple seem to be pining for each other once again.
• It’s never a good sign when your film’s director admits that he only had time to shoot 85% of a screenplay he was handed after being brought on when the original director, Martin Scorsese, dropped out. There are a couple of scenes in the trailer that didn’t make the cut of the film simply because there was nowhere to insert them in this incomprehensible story. Oscar winners Claire Simpson and Thelma Schoonmaker were credited as editors, but their expertise can’t salvage this mess. The film takes place in Norway, with travels to Bergen in Germany, but all the performers speak English. The setting and character names are Scandinavian, try to stop laughing at the name “Harry Hole,” but the film makers oddly went with this cast instead of moving the setting to Canada or Alaska, or hiring a Norwegian cast.
• On the positive, and I don’t know how, the cast is great. Fassbender is seen waking up from a drunken stupor a few too many times, but his performance is very good. Ferguson is okay, but Gainsbourg turns her ex-girlfriend character into something special, and I wish we could have had more of her. Karlsson has her new boyfriend is achingly polite and naive, not quite picking up on the chemistry between Harry and Rakel. Aside from a few iffy special effects shots, the true locations are gorgeous, cold, and snowy. Based on a series of novels by Jo Nesbo (why start shooting with the seventh one?), this should have been a franchise starter, but the box office returns took care of that idea. From what I have read online, the screenplay strays from the novel on key plot points and kills off a couple of major characters who would return in later novels.
• It’s too bad this didn’t work, I would have liked to see more of this character in less convoluted, confused cases. “The Snowman” left the viewer, and apparently the film makers, cold.