The Man on the Roof () is a 1976 Swedish police procedural-thriller film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the 1971 novel The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The film stars Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg and Håkan Serner. Widerberg's direction was inspired by the 1971 American film The French Connection, and Widerberg would make one more crime film in 1984: The Man from Majorca. The film won two Guldbagge Awards in 1977, for Best Film and Best Actor (Håkan Serner). Plot A veteran Swedish policeman named Stig Nyman is brutally murdered, bludgeoned and eviscerated with a bayonet while being treated for a secret illness as a Stockholm hospital. The investigation that follows is led by pragmatic veteran Martin Beck and uninspiring detective Einar Rönn. It turns out that the murdered man was known among colleagues for abusing his police privileges and brutalizing civilians. Although his colleagues generally disliked Nyman and had been aware of his behavior, the police force's esprit de corps had suppressed complaints about him and prevented any reprisals. The investigation proceeds, and finally Beck and his team find a trail that leads to the murderer, who turns out to be an ex-policeman named Eriksson. Eriksson's wife Marja had diabetes and went out to buy insulin before passing out from her illness; Nyman found her unconscious on the street and instead of bringing in medical treatment, had her arrested for public intoxication and placed in a holding cell. She fell into a coma and died, and Eriksson blamed the police for the tragedy. Now, some years later, he has become a social misfit and the authorities are in the process of removing his daughter Malin from his custody. As Beck and his team close in on Eriksson he climbs up on the roof of the apartment building where he lives in central Stockholm, bringing with him both an automatic rifle and a sharpshooter's rifle. He starts to fire at any policeman and police vehicle he can spot, killing one uniformed officer and seriously wounding another. The two cops who are in the middle of Eriksson's rampage are Dets. Kollberg (a married husband who has a progressive approach to his job) and Larsson (a macho hothead who doesn't like Kollberg specifically or the top Stockholm PD brass in general but who is a tough and smart cop). Larsson suffers a non-fatal wound