Author Stieg Larsson’s legacy, for Americans at least, stops at his contribution to the crime-novel industry, with the posthumously-published Millennium trilogy series that sparked a large handful of adaptations and doesn’t seem to be stopping soon. But a new Swedish-language documentary about the author, Henrik Georggson’s “Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire,” seeks to place the late literary sensation and his works within the context of the writing that occupied the better part of Larsson’s life: the documentation of Nazis and the far-right in Europe.
Colleagues of Larsson’s take turns leading us through their time working with him, and you may or may not be surprised that many (or most) of them are women: crime reporter Ewa Tures, reporter Anna-Lena Lodenius, Expo magazine co-founders Jennie K Larsson and Emmy, and his life companion Eva Gabriellson among them.