Beck – Hämndens pris (English: Beck – The Price of Vengeance) is a Swedish police film about Martin Beck, directed by Kjell Sundvall and released in June 2001.[1]
Plot
It is night. A police car pulls over near a van with a flat tire on a desolate highway, where two young men are changing the tire. The police officers step out of the patrol car and offer their help. Suddenly, a third person gets out of the van. One of the officers reacts instantly - this man is a well known criminal, he understands he is recognized. He has also robbed a military camp ten minutes ago, and the van is loaded with explosives and assault rifles. The situation is tense. Later on, the two police officers are found shot dead in a way that looks like an execution. Martin Beck is working on the case and gets all resources he needs to get the unknown murderers. A hunt that gets complicated, because Martin's partner, Gunvald Larsson, was a close friend to one of the killed police officers and he is literally ready to use any methods to find the killer...
The film has been criticized for the similarities with the Murders at Malexander in 1999, but Rolf Börjlind has said that the draft of the film was finished in 1997.[2]
