Man on the Roof 1976 123movies

Watch: Mannen på taket 1976 123movies, Full Movie Online – Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. They discover that Nyman was a very tough policeman who received several complaints about his methods. His partner Hult defends him against these accusations, while Nyman’s widow explains that Hult was the only one outside of the family who knew where Nyman was hospitalized. It becomes obvious to Beck, that a lot of people wanted Nyman dead, but he is not the only one targeted. Soon a sniper kills policemen from a roof in central Stockholm..
Plot: Stockholm policeman Martin Beck is called in to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. Beck and his partner, Einar Ronn, soon discover that the murdered policeman was well known to his colleagues for his excessive brutality, though his misdeeds were never reported to higher authorities. As they pursue their investigation, a sniper climbs to a roof in downtown Stockholm and starts firing at every uniformed officer he sees.
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Skilled action based on a profound crime story
This is director Widerberg’s widely acclaimed first action film, based on a crime story by famous Swedish writers Sjowall/Wahloo. It’s a complex story, involving both the frantic efforts to stop a man from shooting people from a roof top, and the bit by bit revelations of why he’s doing it.

Widerberg could make movies, in this and other genres, and this time he was praised for accomplishing what many regarded as the first Swedish action film, which did not look like high school work, even in an international comparison.

A lot of effort was put into it, involving large parts of Stockholm city at the time, and countless citizens volunteering as extras. It got to be much larger than the movie team had anticipated, but Widerberg managed to be creative about that chaotic situation, giving the film a sense of documentary, of not being fiction at all. Of course that heightened the suspense, and made its social message more urgent.

A PERFECT THRILLER
This movie is from 1976, still Scandinavian movies were mostly known for their unrestrained sexuality or philosophical / religious artists like Bergman; but not for an action movie. As much as I admired Bo Widerberg as director I had never seen him directing an action thriller and (it should not surprise me) he was brilliant in that. The story follows basically a police procedural to capture a cop killer. As always in Widerberg there are social issues all over. Specially about police abuse. However it is quite strange to see how good this “brute” polices treat criminals compared to the likes of Dirty Harry or any other American police story. Here, an incarcerated man claims he has to be freed because it was over six hours without a case and the police free him. Another criminal is carried to the interrogation room without handcuffs and the guy insults the officer. But it seems for Sweden at that time everything else was consider abuse of power. In the final confrontation to catch the shooter. Nobody dare to kill the killer because it was punishable by law (even when the guy commit a massacre already). Going back, the movie follows a police procedural with such realistic small details that feels that everything is real. Even dialogs are quite simple and natural. By two thirds of the movie, the killer gets on a roof and starts killing people. That part of the movie is simply one of the best I saw in my life (and I saw a lot of movies) . The action is perfectly choreographed in a very realistic way; with camera angles that make you feel you are hanging high on a building. The helicopter attack and fall made 44 years ago is just perfect and impressive. Even how the killer is catch is totally unexpected as it was the last few words at the end. On top of the entertainment part (the pace is slow compared with actual thrillers but still interesting) there is reminder of less violent times where government respected people. Something it seems government officials had forgotten for a long time.

Other Information:

Original Language sv
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 483717
Revenue 1390687
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Bo Widerberg
Writer Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö, Bo Widerberg
Actors Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg
Country Sweden
Awards 2 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Film-Teknik, Stockholm, Sweden
Film Length 3,025 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm