7.745 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestNadir reveals an unexpected truth. Kerima prepares to deal the final blow. Fatima fulfills her end of the bargain with Pervin — at a price.
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistant who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.
Acting
Gizem Erdogan's desperate mother will wreck you.
Writing
No villains, just broken people making worse choices.
Direction
Mundane Stockholm becomes suffocatingly claustrophobic.
Creators
Niklas Rockström, Wilhelm Berhman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real ISIS recruitment patterns in Swedish suburbs; creators interviewed defectors and intelligence officers for years.
The show deliberately cast actors with actual connections to the regions depicted—Gizem Erdogan's own family history informed Pervin's desperation.
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