Rolf Lassgård's Wallander: too tired for your Nordic noir clichés, too Swedish to quit.
5.065 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestIn this adaption of a Henning Mankell novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates a case of murder and trade of human organs.
Acting
Lassgård's Wallander: magnificent wreck of a man.
Cinematography
Bleached Swedish landscapes that ache.
Writing
Mankell's moral complexity, unflinching.
Creator
Leif Lindblom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Rolf Lassgård version predates Kristoffer Henriksson's TV series and Kenneth Branagh's BBC take—Swedes still argue which Wallander captured the novels' spiritual exhaustion best.
Mankell wrote Wallander's diabetes and depression as direct reflections of his own health crises; the character's physical decline in later stories mirrors the author's mortality.
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