Call Girl (2012 film)

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Directed byMikael Marcimain
Produced byMimmi Spång
Starring
Call Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMikael Marcimain
Written byMarietta von Hausswolff
von Baumgarten
Produced byMimmi Spång
Starring
CinematographyHoyte van Hoytema
Edited byKristofer Nordin
Music byMattias Bärjed
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Nordisk Film (Sweden and Finland)
  • Fidalgo (Norway)
  • Curzon Film World (Ireland)
Release dates
  • 7 September 2012 (2012-09-07) (Stockholm)
  • 9 November 2012 (2012-11-09) (Sweden)
  • 23 November 2012 (2012-11-23) (Finland)
  • 21 June 2013 (2013-06-21) (Norway)
  • 16 August 2013 (2013-08-16) (Ireland)
Running time
140 minutes
Countries
LanguageSwedish
Box office$1.9 million[2]

Call Girl is a 2012 political thriller[1] film directed by Mikael Marcimain and written by Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten. It stars Sofia Karemyr, Simon J. Berger and Josefin Asplund. The story is a fictionalised version of events based on the so-called Bordellhärvan [sv] political scandal of 1970s Sweden which linked several prominent politicians to a prostitution ring that included underage girls.

Set against the backdrop of the 1976 election, the story is centered on delinquent teenager Iris, who is sent to live in a juvenile home. She meets Sonja there and the two regularly slip away for adventures in the city. Together they are recruited into a prostitution ring operated by Dagmar Glans, a madam well known to the authorities. Dagmar's clients are mostly rich and powerful men, including senior politicians of the day. She becomes the subject of a police investigation led by a young vice officer, John Sandberg. Sandberg soon discovers Glans has powerful clients but also finds his investigation hampered by his superiors and his life threatened by sinister figures. Police break up the prostitution ring but the powerful clients avoid being named in the scandal and Dagmar's trial concludes with her receiving a suspended sentence before Iris can testify about being an underage prostitute. In the aftermath of the trial, Sandberg is killed in a hit and run incident and his report into the affair is classified by the newly elected government. The film ends with Iris running away from the juvenile home, her ultimate fate ambiguous.

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