Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
★ 6.4 · 2010 · 85m · Crime
Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.
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