Millenium, l'histoire
Laurence Lowenthal
2009 - 52 min - Vidéo - Couleur - France

With 15 millions copies sold all over the planet, “Millennium trilogy” is the literary phenomenon nobody expected for.
The documentary proposes an investigation at the hearth of this Scandinavian success with no unprecedented, and a decoding of this dark and violent crime novel.
How to explain this phenomenon? Where and how born the bestseller? Who was the author, the Swedish Stieg Larsson, deceased before the release of the first book? His life, his personality and all his struggles, show his work in a new light.
A lot of rewarding interviews, with close relatives, bring to light an extraordinary destiny. The father and the brother of the author agreed to express themselves about the Stieg Larsson's childhood, and the inheritance they have to managed. His best friend confides in for the first time. Or Noomi Rapace, the actress who plays the famous Lisbeth Salander on the movie, who has a sensitive and keen look on this phenomenon.