The Man from Majorca (Mannen från Mallorca) is a 1984 Swedish crime thriller film directed by Bo Widerberg. The film is based on the 1978 book The Pig Party (Grisfesten) by Leif G. W. Persson.
A post office is robbed on Saint Lucy's Day (13 December). Police officers Jarnebring (Sven Wollter) and Johansson (Tomas von Brömssen) and are the first to arrive and chases after the robber, but the robber manages to escape while running through a school. Shortly thereafter two murders happens. As the investigation goes on it becomes clear that these murders are connected to the post office robbery. As the investigation continues the police starts to unravel a political scandal that could have severe consequences for the country. Meanwhile it seems that there is a cover-up going on.
Tropes:
- The Alcoholic: Erik Harald Olsson.
- Amicable Exes: Johansson is on good enough terms with his ex-wife that he celebrates Christmas together with her and her new man.
- Blackmail Backfire: Both Erik Harald Olsson and Rogge Jansson tried to blackmail Hedberg after recognizing him at the post office and the school. As a result both of them gets murdered.
- The Casanova: Hedberg. Jarnebring and Johansson watches him for three nights and each night he goes home with a new woman.
- Conspiracy Thriller: [[spoilers: The investigation is sabotaged by the Swedish security police.]]
- Cowboy Cop: Jarnebring and Johansson, who conduct their own investigation of Hedberg and the Minister for Justice and threatens to throw a witness out from their car unless he starts talking.
- Da Chief: Dahlgren
- Downer Ending: The bad guys get away with it. The only "solace" Johansson and Jarnebring get is Dahlgren recognizing that they were right. As he himself puts it: "It's f***ked" .
- Dirty Cop: Kjell Göran Hedberg, who robs a post office and kills two people.
- Friendly Enemy: Jarnebring and Johansson runs into Sven Roland Martinsson, a wanted criminal who didn't return to prison after being on leave. While driving him to the prison they have a friendly conversion, asking Martinsson if he knows who commited the robbery and if he can describe a small-time crook who also asked about the robbery. In return they don't report the car break-in Martinsson was commiting and lets him go to the prison alone and get a lighter punishment for returning voluntary.
- High-Class Call Girl: Eva Zetterberg, who wears a furcoat, drives a cab and has a expensive apartment where she does her business.
- Karma Houdini: Kjell Göran Hedberg gets away with robbing the post office and murdering two witnesses, just to cover up the Minister for Justice's visits to prostitues.
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Spiritual Sequel: To The Man On The Roof, being filmed in the same style, using the same Stockholm-enviroments and some of the same cast. Originally, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt who played the lead in The Man On The Roof was supposed to play Dahlgren. - Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The film (and the novel it was based on) is inspired by The Geijer affair
, where the Minister for Justice Lennart Geijer was pointed out as potential security risk due to alleged contacts with prostitutes from the Eastern Bloc.
