The Man on the Roof

The Man on the Roof
Swedish DVD cover
Swedish	Mannen på taket
Directed by	Bo Widerberg
Screenplay by	Bo Widerberg
Based on	The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Produced by	Per Berglund
Starring	Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt Sven Wollter Thomas Hellberg Håkan Serner
Cinematography	Odd Geir Sæther Per Källberg
Edited by	Sylvia Ingemarsson Bo Widerberg
Music by	Björn J:son Lindh
Production companies	SF Studios, Swedish Film Institute, Bo Widerberg Film AB
Distributed by	SF Studios, Swedish Film Institute
Release date	1 October 1976 (1976-10-01) (Sweden)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish
Budget	4 million SEK
Box office	11.5 million SEK

The Man on the Roof (Swedish: Mannen på taket) 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,^{[citation needed]} 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).^[1]