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THE HYPNOTIST (HYPNOTISÖREN) (Past Film)
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Completed - Thriller - 110 minutes

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Lasse HALLSTRÖM
Writer(s) : Paolo VACIRCA
Cast : Mikael PERSBRANDT, Tobias ZILLIACUS

Producer(s) : Börje HANSSON (Svensk Filmindustri), Peter POSSNE (Sonet Film ), Bertil OHLSSON

Synopsis

In the middle of a dark December night, psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark is woken by a telephone call from a hospital in Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna asks for his immediate help in treating an unconscious patient suffering from acute trauma.
He hopes that Erik will be able to communicate with the young boy through hypnosis, enabling the police to question him. They hope to find out who so brutally murdered his parents and younger sister, in order to track down and save his older sister before it is too late.
But it has been ten years since Erik last practised hypnosis, and he has promised never to do it again. Painful memories from that time make their presence felt, contributing to his decision not to help the police.
When Erik finally allows himself to be persuaded, it is as if the floodgates have been opened to a torrent of unforeseen happenings. Without warning this violent and inexplicable course of events impacts with full force on Erik’s life. His son disappears, and to have a chance of saving his life, Erik has to confront himself with the past, with the times when his research-work was laid in ruins and his marriage seemed on the verge of collapsing.

Production

Country(ies) : SWEDEN

Start of shooting : January 2012

GERMANY Feb 21, 2013 PROKINO FILMVER
GREECE ROSEBUD.21
HONG KONG EMPEROR MOTION
UNITED KIN STUDIOCANAL (UK

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