Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty

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Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty

2008

1h 30m

6.4(39 votes)

Crime

Thriller

Overview

After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Trond Espen Seim

Varg Veum

Bjørn Floberg

Jacob Hamre

Endre Hellestveit

Isachsen

Kathrine Fagerland

Anna Keilhaug

Julie Rusti

Lisa Halle

Marianne Nielsen

Vigdis Halle

Bjørn Willberg Andersen

Niels Halle

Ågot Sendstad

Vera Werner

Stig R. Amdam

Håkon Werner

Frank Kjosås

Peter Werner

Creative team

Directed by: Erik Richter Strand
Written by: Lars Skorpen
Produced by: Jonas Allen
Peter Bose

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