Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl

Apr 8, 1998

1h 26m

★ 5.5

Overview

Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Mystery

Production Companies

Filmlance International

Frankfurter Filmproduktion GmbH

TV 2

TV4

Victoria Film

ARD Degeto

Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl Trailers

Cast

Martin Beck

Peter Haber

Gunvald Larsson

Mikael Persbrandt

Lena Klingström

Stina Rautelin

Joakim Wersén

Per Morberg

The Neighbor

Ingvar Hirdwall

Inger

Rebecka Hemse

John Banck

Michael Nyqvist

Jens Loftegård

Fredrik Ultvedt

Yvonne Jäder

Anna Ulrika Ericsson

Oljelund

Peter Hüttner

Servitören

Bo Höglund

Hasse Larsson

Jan von Melen

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