7.389 minSeason 4 • Episode 3
LatestHis memory is going to pieces and he is no longer officially on duty, but Wallander draws on all his resources to find Linda’s missing father-in-law, a former top official in the Swedish navy, obsessed with a decades-old submarine mystery. Slowly losing his grip on reality, Wallander is desperate to solve this one last case.
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
Acting
Branagh's physical decay as performance — every sigh weighs tons
Cinematography
Swedish landscapes so beautiful they hurt
Direction
Philip Martin lets silence do the screaming
Creator
Henning Mankell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Branagh bought the rights himself after reading the books on holiday — no studio wanted this much sadness.
Mankell created Wallander partly to examine how Sweden's welfare state mythology crumbled in the 1990s — the crimes are symptoms, not the disease.
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