Your cozy Swedish detective show? It's actually a complete emotional devastation in a raincoat.
4.390 minSeason 3 • Episode 6
LatestIt's almost Christmas and Kurt is troubled by his memory disease. He realizes that it will soon be necessary to tell his colleagues and the rest of the world that he is sick. But he finds it difficult to give up his job, his only identity. In Ystad, there is a brutal kidnapping of a famous restaurateur, Paolo Salino. Kurt takes on the case but is forced to enlist the help of his colleague Jenny from the police in Malmö.
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
Acting
Henriksson's Wallander is exhaustion made flesh
Cinematography
Ystad's yellow walls vs endless grey skies
Writing
Mankell's moral complexity, not puzzle-box plotting
Creator
Henning Mankell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates the 'Nordic noir' boom—Mankell invented the template that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo later commodified.
Three episodes got theatrical releases because Swedish audiences were already treating TV as cinema; the BBC later proved them right.
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