''Hamilton'' is a 1998

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directed by

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and starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and

Lena Olin Lena Maria Jonna Olin (; born 22 March 1955) is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Mentored by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, she made her screen de ...

. The film was edited with additional scenes into a 3-hour-long TV series in 2001. The 1998 single "No Man's Land" by Ardis was included in the soundtrack to this film.

Synopsis

Swedish military intelligence officers Carl Hamilton ( Peter Stormare) and Åke Stålhandske ( Mats Långbacka) are ordered to eliminate a band of Russian smugglers on the Russian tundra. The smugglers possess a nuclear missile, a 1.5 megaton

SS-20 The RSD-10 ''Pioneer'' (russian: ракета средней дальности (РСД) «Пионер» tr.: ''raketa sredney dalnosti (RSD) "Pioner"''; en, Medium-Range Missile "Pioneer") was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a ...

, "enough to turn Paris, Washington or New York to ashes". What they do not know is that the smugglers they have intercepted were only a decoy, while the real missile was shipped to

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. Mike Hawkins ( Mark Hamill), the film's antagonist, is an American former CIA officer working in

Murmansk Murmansk (Russian: ''Мурманск'' lit. "Norwegian coast"; Finnish: ''Murmansk'', sometimes ''Muurmanski'', previously ''Muurmanni''; Norwegian: ''Norskekysten;'' Northern Sámi: ''Murmánska;'' Kildin Sámi: ''Мурман ланнҍ'') ...

, who is also looking for the nuclear missile and joins Hamilton's team.

Cast

* Peter Stormare as Carl Hamilton *

as Tessie * Mark Hamill as Mike Hawkins * Mats Långbacka as Åke Stålhandske *

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as Texas Slim

Production

The Statoil company paid 500,000 NOK ($USD67,000) for their logo to be displayed for three seconds in the film. Mark Hamill accidentally hit Peter Stormare during the last fight scene.

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