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Blackwater (TV Series)
''Blackwater'' is a Scandinavian television drama made for SVT and ITV Studios by Piv Bernth and Apple Tree Productions. It is an adaptation by Maren Louise Käehne and Arrhenius of Kerstin Ekman's 1993 novel of the same name. It is directed by Karin Arrhenius and Mikael Marcimain, and stars Pernilla August. It had a Swedish premiere date of 23 January 2023 and was in competition at the Göteborg Festival. It has broadcast dates in France and Germany for March 2023. Synopsis The action is set in Blackwater during two time-periods, 1973 and 1991. In the mountains of North Sweden, near the small town of Blackwater, two tourists are found murdered in a tent in 1973. Annie discovers their corpses while making her way to an isolated commune with her young daughter Mia. The local policeman Åke and doctor Birger begin to investigate the crime but are replaced by detectives from Stockholm. Suspects include local residents and commune members. Repercussions of the unsolved murders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwater (novel)
''Blackwater'' ( sv, Händelser vid vatten, lit=Events by Water) is a 1993 novel by the Swedish writer Kerstin Ekman. It received the August Prize in 1993 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1994. It also won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award. See also * 1993 in literature * Swedish literature * Blackwater (TV series) References 1993 Swedish novels Novels set in Sweden Swedish crime novels Albert Bonniers Förlag books August Prize-winning works Nordic Council's Literature Prize-winning works Swedish-language novels {{1990s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothenburg Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched in 1979 it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors. Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In later years around 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115,000 visitors. The film festival is also an important market place for the contractors in the movie industry. Awards the following prizes were awarded: Dragon Awards *Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (Nordiska filmpriset) *Dragon Award Best Acting (since 2019) *Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film – (Nordiska Filmpriset – Publikens val) *Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary (since 2013) *Dragon Award Best International Film * Honorary Dragon A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s Swedish Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR (broadcaster)
DR (), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union. DR was originally funded by a media licence, however since 2022, the media license has been replaced by an addition to the Danish income tax. Today, DR operates three television channels, all of which are distributed free-to-air via a nationwide DVB-T2 network. DR also operates seven radio channels. All are available nationally on DAB+ radio and online, with the four original stations also available on FM radio. History DR was founded on 1 April 1925 under the name of ''Radioordningen'', which was changed to ''Statsradiofonien'' in 1926, then to ''Danmarks Radio'' in 1959, and to ''DR'' in 1996. During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, radio broadcasts w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Asp
Anna Asp (born 16 May 1946) is a Swedish production designer and Art director#In film, art director. She studied at Christer Strömholms School of Photography and then at Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Over the course of her career Asp has collaborated on films with directors Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bille August and Woody Allen, among others. She won the Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 56th Academy Awards, 1983 for her work in ''Fanny and Alexander''. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards she won the Creative Achievement award. In addition, Asp has worked in theater and television production, including the Swedish TV series Wallander (Swedish TV series), Wallander. Asp won the Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film gold medal in 2008 for her "outstanding artistic work." References External links * 1946 births Living people Swedish production designers Swedish art directors Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARD Degeto
Degeto Film Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Bild) is a film rights trader and production company of the ARD (broadcaster), ARD, based in Frankfurt am Main. Its shareholders are the ARD (broadcaster)#Institutions and member organizations, regional broadcasting corporations of ARD or their advertising subsidiaries. ARD Degeto acquires fictional programs for ARD's flagship national television channel Das Erste, the so called "Third Programmes" (TV channels) of the regional broadcasting corporations (Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR, Hessischer Rundfunk, HR, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, MDR, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR, Radio Bremen, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, RBB, Saarländischer Rundfunk, SR, Südwestrundfunk, SWR, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, WDR), 3sat, Arte, One (German TV channel), One and the other ARD channels. History The company was founded in 1928 as ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Film e. V.'' and produced and distributed propaganda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Mjönes
Liv Anna Mjönes (born 18 September 1979) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... actress. In 1995 at the age of 16 she started studying dancing and acting. She graduated after four years of education at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2006. She is best known for her role as Frida in the Swedish film '' Kyss Mig''. Filmography Television Theatre External links * 1979 births Living people Swedish film actresses Swedish television actresses Actresses from Stockholm Dramatiska Institutet alumni {{sweden-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Kundler
Jenö Carl Andreas Kundler (born 10 December 1970) is a Swedish actor. He studied in Malmö 1994–97. Selected filmography * '' Besvärliga människor'' (2001) * '' Beck – Annonsmannen'' (2002) * '' Berglunds begravningar'' (2003) * '' Lasermannen'' (2005) * '' Lögnens pris'' (2007) * ''Sami Blood ''Sami Blood'' ( sv, Sameblod) is a 2016 Swedish coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Amanda Kernell, as her feature film debut. The first 10 minutes of the film (and part of the end) comes directly from the short film ' (2015, dir. A ...'' (2016) References * * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kundler, Andreas Swedish male actors 1970 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Sweden, Swedish national public broadcasting, public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament). Prior to 2019, SVT was funded by a television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets. The Swedish public broadcasting system is largely modelled after the system used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the BBC. SVT is a public limited company that can be described as a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation. Together with the other two public broadcasters, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Utbildningsradio, it is owned by an independent foundation, ''Foundation Management for SR, SVT, and UR, Förvaltningsstiftelsen för Sveriges Radio AB, Sveriges Television AB och Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB''. The foundation's board consists of 13 politicians, repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman, née Hjorth, (born 27 August 1933) is a Swedish novelist. Life and career Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others ''De tre små mästarna'' and ''Dödsklockan'') but later went on to psychological and social themes. Among her later works is ''Mörker och blåbärsris'' (1972) (set in northern Sweden) and '' Händelser vid vatten'' (1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel. Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. In 2018, the Academy granted her resignation, the rules of membership having changed to allow members to resign. In 1998, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal. Partial bibliography :''See the article on Swedish Wikipedia for a complete bibliography.'' * '' Blackwater'' (''Händelser vid vatten'', 1993), tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
