Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

2010 · 85 min · ★ 6.3 · Crime

Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.

Directed by Stefan Faldbakken · Written by Thomas Moldestad

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Trond Espen Seim Varg Veum
Bjørn Floberg Jacob Hamre
Lene Nystrøm Karin Bjørge
Nikolaj Lie Kaas Kniven
Petronella Barker Sidsel
Eivind Sander Holger
Tobias Santelmann Stian Brandt
Per Egil Aske Herman Brandt
Birgitte Victoria Svendsen Solveig Brandt
Hulda Hein Gutierrez Geline Brandt
Martine Johansen Torill / Eva Beate
Karl Vidar Lende Egil

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