Someone stole his face. No, really. Swedish noir doesn't mess around.
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.
Acting
Persbrandt's Gunvald seethes with barely contained rage throughout.
Practical Effects
That face removal? Old-school prosthetics, gloriously unsettling.
Director
Harald Hamrell
Peter Haber
Martin Beck
Mikael Persbrandt
Gunvald Larsson
Malin Birgerson
Alice Levander
Marie Göranzon
Margareta Oberg
Hanns Zischler
Josef Hillman
Mårten Klingberg
Nick
Jimmy Endeley
Robban
Peter Hüttner
Oljelund
Ingvar Hirdwall
Grannen
Rebecka Hemse
Inger
Michalis Koutsogiannakis
Tahmed Ahmed
Stina Ekblad
Angelica Beckman
Leif Andrée
Jörgen Beckman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hanns Zischler, who plays Hillman, is German—his casting deliberately plays into Swedish xenophobic fears of the early 2000s.
This is Beck #10 in a franchise that's been running since 1967, making Peter Haber the longest-serving Martin Beck—he'd play him for another 20 years after this.
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