Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death

Name: Varg Veum - Dødens drabanter
Genre: Crime
Released: 2011-04-08
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Trond Espen Seim, Lene Nystrøm, Bjørn Floberg

Original title: Varg Veum - Dødens drabanter

2011
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

1.3K

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Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)

Crime

Varg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and all evidence points to their foster son, 16-year-... Read allVarg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and all evidence points to their foster son, 16-year-old Jan Egil. The kid refuses to talk to anyone except Veum, who has known him since child... Read allVarg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and all evidence points to their foster son, 16-year-old Jan Egil. The kid refuses to talk to anyone except Veum, who has known him since childhood. He swears he didn't kill his foster parents. But there are a couple of social works ... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

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Goofs
Approx 24:40. When Varg enters Siljes room to talk to her, he puts his hands into his pockets (to be defensive) and asks "Hi, how are you?". When the camera angel shifts, she responds "Hi". He puts his hands into his pockets yet another time.

Connections
Followed by At Night All Wolves Are Grey (2011)

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Review

Featured review

5/10

The book is much better

So I gave the cliché that the book is much better. Well, it's true, although I only watched for 20 minutes.

The first thing we see of Veum is him waking up in the bed together with Aqua Lene. In the book he has a random one night stand with a woman and that's it. He did have a son from a stranded relationship, but that's beside the point. Varg Veum is much better as a lonely, borderline depressed detective.

Other than that the scene where Veum is called to the farm to talk to Jane boy who has entrenched himself in the woods is to me over acted and unbelievable and then a short while later Veum finds an empty can of contraband moonshine out in the woods near the farm, implying that there is more to this case than meets the eye. But come on, he just happens to trip over this can out in the bush? This is not at all how it happened in the book and that's ok, but the way they put in into the script is just lazy.

So this is when I turned the movie off and bought 5 used Veum books online.