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Executive Protection is a film of genre Thriller released in USA on 17 august 2001 with Jakob Eklund
Executive Protection (2001)
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Add to a movie listExecutive Protection (Swedish: Livvakterna, meaning "The Bodyguards") is a Swedish action film from 2001 directed by Anders Nilsson. It is the second film in the series about police officer Johan Falk (Jakob Eklund).
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Sven Persson (Samuel Fröler), who owns a textile company in Estonia, hires Nikolaus Lehman (Christoph M. Ohrt) to take care of local gangsters who are attempting to pressure Persson into paying 'protection' money. To Persson's surprise and shock, Lehman takes care of the problem by killing the gangsters and demands a share of the company's profit. A threatened Persson seeks out his old friend and police officer Johan Falk (Jakob Eklund), who has been assigned a desk job as a disciplinary action by his superiors.Actors
Jakob Eklund
(Johan Falk)
Samuel Fröler
(Sven Persson)
Alexandra Rapaport
(Pernilla)
Christoph M. Ohrt
(Nikolaus Lehman)
Marie Richardson
(Helén Andersson)
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