The film suggests that a British professional hit-man was hired by the CIA to assassinate the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme , because of Palme 's stance on nuclear weapons in Scandinavia . The hit-man ( Michael Kitchen ) works for money alone and is very careful . He finds a Norwegian man ( Bjørn Floberg ) that hates the Swedish P.M . He also involves a man to be blamed ( this character is '' Christer Pettersson '' , first convicted ( by a disagreeing court ) of the real assassination , but later acquitted in the appealing court . The Norwegian man kills Palme just as his wife notices Christer Pettersson . Soon afterwards the hitman kills the killer , and all traces pointing to the professional hitman are gone
real assassination
Assassination of Olof Palme
The Last Contract