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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared
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Dominic Monaghan
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Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan is an English actor. He currently hosts the nature program Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan, Monaghan was born in Berlin, West Germany, to British parents, Maureen, a nurse, and Austin Monaghan, a science teacher. He also has a brother named Luke Twardowski-reid. His older brother Matthew is the songwriter and co-lead vocalist of the indie band Radiosepia. Monaghans family lived in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Münster, when he was about 11 years old, his family moved from Germany to Heaton Moor in Stockport, England. In Stockport, he attended St Annes Roman Catholic High School and Aquinas College, although Monaghan held many occupations when he was younger, he always wanted to be an actor. After his second year at St. Annes, Monaghan became a regular in school such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol. There, he was scouted for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, on which he played Hettys under-aged sidekick, Geoffrey Shawcross and he made his feature-film debut as Russian sailor Sasha in the TV film Hostile Waters. Monaghan later starred in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as Meriadoc Brandybuck, for which he achieved international acclaim, Monaghan narrated Ringers, Lord of the Fans, a documentary about The Lord of the Rings fandom. He also provided the narration for The Discovery Channels documentary Devils Bible in 2008 and he also appeared in Soldiers of Fortune alongside Sean Bean and Christian Slater. He was a regular cast member on the ABC series Lost from 2004 to 2007, playing English ex-rockstar, Monaghan originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer. The role of Charlie was then changed from an old, washed up rocker from the 1980s, Monaghan returned to the series as a special guest star after departing from the main cast. In 2009, Monaghan starred as Chris Bradley / Bolt in X-Men Origins, on 15 July 2009, it was confirmed that he would join the cast of ABC Studios science fiction television series FlashForward as the character Simon. The series premiered on 24 September 2009 and it was cancelled after its first season. On 18 March 2010, Monaghan was spotted at the Universal Sheraton filming a short called Gloria and it was part of a programme called REESES Puffs Extraordinary Cinema. He played the part of Caleb Reese, in 2010, Monaghan and Megan Fox made an appearance as a couple in an abusive relationship in the music video for rapper Eminems song Love the Way You Lie. Scenes include the celebrities on top of a liquor store, Fox and Monaghan also filmed inside the store and at a seedy dive bar next door to the store. In November 2012, a new show on Channel 5 titled Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan began airing in the UK, the documentary shows Monaghan travelling to various locations such as Venezuela and Ecuador to film and interact with the exotic and often dangerous local wildlife
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Michael Nyqvist
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Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck films made in 1997. He is most recognized internationally for his role in the acclaimed Millennium series as Mikael Blomkvist, as well as the villain in Mission, Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Nyqvist was born in Stockholm, to a Swedish mother and an Italian father, as a baby, he was adopted from an orphanage. At 17, he spent a year as a student in Omaha. He took his first acting classes there, as a senior in high school playing, amongst other things, when he returned to Sweden, he was accepted at ballet school, but after one year, gave it up. An ex-girlfriend suggested he try theatre, instead, and at 24 he was accepted to the Malmö Theatre Academy, after graduating, Nyqvist worked mainly in theatre, but also landed smaller parts in several different film productions. Nyqvists first big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together directed by Lukas Moodysson, the movie was set in the 1970s and followed the antics of life in a suburban commune in Stockholm. The movie achieved great success and earned Nyqvist his first Guldbagge Best Actor nomination for his role as a misguided husband with anger issues. He later played the man in the Swedish romantic comedy. The film is based on the novel of the name written by Katarina Mazetti. The film explored the difficulties that arise between a farmer and a city librarian, highlighting the differences between blue-collar laborers and white-collar administrators. Nyqvist won a Guldbagge Best Actor award for his role as the farmer, in 2004, he played the lead role as Daniel Daréus, a conductor and musician, in the Academy Award-nominated Best Foreign Film As It Is in Heaven, directed by Kay Pollak. It is one of the most-watched Swedish films, and the role highlighted Nyqvists ability to display tenderness and vulnerability at the time as rage. In 2006, he starred in Suddenly directed by Johan Brisinger, in Suddenly, Nyqvist plays Lasse – a man who must come to terms with the sudden loss of his wife and son. In 2007, Nyqvist portrayed Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam, in The Black Pimpernel, although Nyqvist always was high on the list of potential actors to portray Blomkvist, his charisma got him the role. The director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev, found what he was looking for in Nyqvist – someone with the looks, charm. He starred in Abduction, directed by John Singleton and he is also part of the permanent ensemble at the Royal Dramatic Theatre
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Seinabo Sey
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Seinabo Sey is a Swedish recording artist and songwriter. Seinabo Sey was born in Södermalm, Stockholm, on 7 October 1990 and she is of both Swedish and Gambian ancestry. She moved to Halmstad, Sweden, at the age of eight, Sey was inspired musically by artists such as Alicia Keys and Beyoncé early in life. She grew up in Halmstad, Sweden, surrounded by artistry and her father Maudo Sey was a renowned musician in The Gambia and Senegal, West Africa. In an interview, Sey recalled being nine years old and watching MTV, Sey wanted to study at Yale as an adolescent, being inspired by the character Rory Gilmore on the television show Gilmore Girls. In an interview Sey noted, I was really academically tracked, I loved to sing but I could never fathom singing by myself. I tried to push away the whole music dream and thought I had to do something more in line with that, like becoming a lawyer or something, but then I realised I couldnt really live in that small town so I moved to Stockholm and started music school. After Sey started working with producer Magnus Lidehäll she released her debut single Younger, followed by Hard Time, the singles, which were described as soul pop, received much attention and accolades in Sweden and abroad. Kygo, a Norwegian musician, remixed Younger, releasing it in Norway and this version, known as Younger, peaked on the Norwegian VG-lista chart and on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. On 16 April 2015, Younger was featured on BBC Radio 1 as their Track of the Day, in 2014, EDM duo Galantis used a sample of Seys single Hard Times in a song that appears on their self-titled EP titled Friends. Sey performed at the 2014 Swedish Grammy Awards and at Allsång på Skansen in Stockholm, in October 2014, Seinabo Sey released the critically acclaimed EP For Madeleine, dedicated to and named after her mother. The EP was produced by Magnus Lidehäll and written by, among others, Salem Al Fakir, Oscar Linnros and Vincent Pontare and that same month, she performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She also performed at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize concert, on March 30,2015, Sey released her second EP, the four-track For Maudo, dedicated to and named after her father, Maudo Sey. Repeating the success of For Madeleine, the EP received favorable reviews and widespread acclaim in Sweden. For Maudo was produced by Magnus Lidehäll, and one Swedish review described the EP as a weightless, another review described the EP as being composed of exceptionally beautiful music. On October 23,2015, Sey released her first album, the album contains 16 tracks, including Younger and Hard Time. In November 2016, the titular track Pretend was the featured music in the season 6 Girls trailer. 2014 - Breakthrough of the year -2014 Swedish Music Publishers Prize 2015 - Best Newcomer -2014 Swedish Grammy Awards 2015 - Soul/R&B artist of the year -2014 Kingsize Awards Official website
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
