''Wallander'' () is a Swedish television series adapted from
Henning Mankell
Henning Georg Mankell (; 3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of ...
's
Kurt Wallander
Kurt Wallander () is a fictional Swedish police inspector created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell (1948 â 2015). He is the protagonist of many thriller/mystery novels set in and around the town of Ystad, south-east of the city of Malm ...
novels, starring
Krister Henriksson
Jan Krister Allan Henriksson (born 12 November 1946) is a Swedish actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell.
Early life
Henriksson was born in Grisslehamn, NorrtĂ ...
in the title role. The first season of thirteen films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The second season of thirteen films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in
Ystad
Ystad (; older da, Ysted) is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality, in Scania County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates from the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre, and ...
,
SkÄne
Scania, also known by its native name of SkÄne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with SkÄne C ...
near the southern tip of Sweden.
The three films ''Before the Frost'' (#1), ''Mastermind'' (#6), and ''The Secret'' (#13) were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, ''HĂ€mnden'' (''The Revenge''), was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, aired in 2013 with
Charlotta Jonsson
Charlotta Jonsson (born 11 May 1973) is a Swedish actress. She is from UmeÄ in northern Sweden but now lives in Stockholm.
Between 2000 and 2004, Jonsson studied at the Gothenburg Theatre Academy. She is best known for her role as Charlotte Eke ...
replacing the late
Johanna SÀllström
Johanna Maria Ellinor Berglund-SĂ€llström (30 December 1974 â 13 February 2007) was a Swedish actress, best known for her portrayal of Linda Wallander in '' Wallander''. She worked as an actress for more than 15 years, before her death in 200 ...
as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel ''
The Troubled Man
''The Troubled Man'' (Swedish: ''Den orolige mannen'') is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. It is the twelfth and final novel in the Wallander series. The pace of ''The Troubled Man' ...
'', was released in cinemas in January 2013.
Season 1, 2005â06
From 2005 to 2006, the first 13 new stories, starring
Krister Henriksson
Jan Krister Allan Henriksson (born 12 November 1946) is a Swedish actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell.
Early life
Henriksson was born in Grisslehamn, NorrtĂ ...
as Kurt Wallander, were produced. The first film is based on the
Henning Mankell
Henning Georg Mankell (; 3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of ...
novel ''
Before the Frost
''Before the Frost'' (''Innan Frosten'', 2002) is a novel by Swedish crime-writer Henning Mankell.
The protagonist is Linda Wallander, daughter of Inspector Wallander. The book was to be the first in a three-book series with Linda as the main ...
'' and was released in cinemas. The rest of the films are original stories based on plots written by Mankell, with scriptwriting completed by others. Two more were theatrical releases, and the rest were released on DVD and shown on TV.
S1 episodes
Season 2, 2009â10
In 2008, a further 13 films were commissioned. Filming began in August 2008, and continued during 2009. The 13 episodes were released during 2009 and 2010.
The first of these films, ''HĂ€mnden'' (''The Revenge''), was a theatrical release on 9 January 2009, directed by award-winning Paris-based Franco-Swedish director
Charlotte Brandström
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. The remaining 12 films went directly to DVD in Scandinavia during 2009 and 2010, and were broadcast there at a later date. In the beginning of 2010, both
Canvas TV in Belgium and
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002 in the UK began airing the 13 episodes weekly, which meant that they both showed the two last episodes before these had been released in Scandinavia.
S2 episodes
The episodes in the second series are:
After filming completed on the 2009 series, Henriksson stated that he would not play Wallander again, having only signed the new contract because he thought the 2005 series could have been better. However, he later indicated that he would be interested in playing the role in an adaptation of the final Wallander novel, ''The Troubled Man'', because "it is the definite end".
Season 3, 2013
A third and final season, containing six 90-minute episodes, was released in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel ''
The Troubled Man
''The Troubled Man'' (Swedish: ''Den orolige mannen'') is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. It is the twelfth and final novel in the Wallander series. The pace of ''The Troubled Man' ...
'', was released in cinemas in January 2013, and the rest on DVD. The series finale premiered 30 July 2013.
S3 episodes
Cast
*
Krister Henriksson
Jan Krister Allan Henriksson (born 12 November 1946) is a Swedish actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Kurt Wallander in the television films based on the novels by Henning Mankell.
Early life
Henriksson was born in Grisslehamn, NorrtĂ ...
as
Kurt Wallander
Kurt Wallander () is a fictional Swedish police inspector created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell (1948 â 2015). He is the protagonist of many thriller/mystery novels set in and around the town of Ystad, south-east of the city of Malm ...
*
Johanna SÀllström
Johanna Maria Ellinor Berglund-SĂ€llström (30 December 1974 â 13 February 2007) was a Swedish actress, best known for her portrayal of Linda Wallander in '' Wallander''. She worked as an actress for more than 15 years, before her death in 200 ...
as
Linda Wallander (series 1)
*
Charlotta Jonsson
Charlotta Jonsson (born 11 May 1973) is a Swedish actress. She is from UmeÄ in northern Sweden but now lives in Stockholm.
Between 2000 and 2004, Jonsson studied at the Gothenburg Theatre Academy. She is best known for her role as Charlotte Eke ...
as Linda Wallander (series 3)
*
Douglas Johansson
Sten Gunnar Douglas Johansson (born 31 January 1960) is a Swedish actor, best known as Jan Martinsson in the films about Kurt Wallander.
Filmography
*1991 â ''Hassel â Botgörarna''
*1996 â ''Jerusalem''
*1997 â '' Ogifta par''
*1997 â ...
as
Jan Martinsson
*
Fredrik Gunnarsson
Fredrik Gunnarsson (born Hans Göte Fredrik Gunnarsson, September 4, 1965 in Oxelösund) is a Swedish actor. He is best known for playing the character Svartman in a series of television films based on the Kurt Wallander novels by Henning Mankel ...
as
Johan Svartman
*
Mats Bergman
Mats Bergman (born 5 May 1948) is a Swedish actor.
He is the son of director Ingmar Bergman and Ellen Lundström, twin brother of actress Anna Bergman, and a half-brother of Swedish-Norwegian author Linn Ullmann.
Biography
Bergman graduated f ...
as
Nyberg
*
Ola Rapace
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*Ola (river), a river in Magadan Obla ...
as
Stefan Lindman
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(series 1)
*
Angela KovĂĄcs
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as
Ann-Britt Höglund (series 1)
*
Stina Ekblad
Stina Ă
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as
Karin Linder
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*Karin Kurosaki, a cha ...
, the coroner
*
Marianne Mörck as Ebba
*
Göran Aronsson as
Grönkvist
*
Lena Endre
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as
Katarina Ahlsell
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, prosecutor (series 2)
*
Nina Zanjani
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, na ...
as
Isabelle Melin (series 2)
*
Sverrir Gudnason
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as Pontus Höijer but introducing himself as 'Pontus Abs' in ''Kuriren'' (series 2)
* Gaston as Jussi (series 3)
Production
The following are some other personnel involved:
* Executive producers: Ă
sa Sjöberg, Jenny Gilbertsson, Peter Bose, Lars Björkman, Morten Fisker, Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Mikael Wallen, Niva Westlin, Vibeke WindelÞv.
* Producers: Malte Forsell, Ole SÞndberg, Lars Björkman, Lasse BjÞrkmann.
* Editors: HĂ„kan Karlsson, Tomas Beije,
Mattias Morheden, HĂ©lĂšne Berlin, Margareta Lagerqvist, Kristofer Nordin, Dino JonsĂ€ter, Gustav Ăström.
Reception
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Wallander Wallander may refer to:
TV, film, books
* Kurt Wallander, a fictional Swedish police inspector in novels by Henning Mankell
:* ''Wallander'' (film series), Swedish-language television films of the Wallander stories starring Rolf LassgÄrd
:* ''Wal ...
'',
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002 began broadcasting the 2005 series to United Kingdom audiences. ''Before the Frost'' and ''Mastermind'' were shown in November 2008; broadcast of the others began weekly in July 2009. Reviewing ''The Village Idiot'' and ''The Brothers'' in the ''
Financial Times
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'',
John Lloyd wrote:
More evident is the philosophical underpinning that the books' author, Henning Mankell, brings, focusing down on the forensic work of a provincial detective the global sins of the western world. This coming weekâs episode, ''The Brothers'', is a murder mystery emerging from a terrible crime perpetrated by a group of drunken men on colonised people; last week's, ''The Village Idiot'', had at its core the moral obloquy of a private surgeon greedy for profit.
Wallander and his comrades seek what remedies they can to the consequences of the sins of oppression and greed. At one point, Wallander tells his daughter, Linda, who is applying to become a detective, that she should reflectâotherwise she, like him, will emerge from a tunnel 30 years later, wondering what had happened to life. What had happened for Wallander is a melancholy immersion in human degradation, a provincial Inferno without a Virgil to guide him.
Writing in ''Ărnsköldsviks Allehanda'' after the release of ''The Thief'' (2009), Peter Carlsson complained that only the first and last films of the successive series were any good, pointing out that these are the ones released to cinemas. Carlsson further criticised that the middle films "are often predictable, tentative and carelessly made", and that the arrest of the criminal is anticlimactic.
As a series, ''Wallander'' has been nominated for The International TV Dagger at the 2009
Crime Thriller Awards
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, an awards ceremony presented by British television channel
ITV3
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and the
Crime Writers' Association
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.
Series 2 won the International TV Dagger at the 2010
Crime Thriller Awards
The Crime Thriller Awards is a British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction. The inaugural event was held on 3 October 2008 at the Grosvenor Hotel, hosted by comedian and ''Jonathan Creek'' actor Alan Davies. It was televised on ...
, an awards ceremony presented by British television channel
ITV3
ITV3 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. The channel was first launched on Monday 1 November 2004 at 9pm, replacing Plus (Granada). ITV3 is the sixth-largest UK television channel by ...
and the
Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authorsâ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. T ...
.
DVD releases
* The first season was released in installment sets.
* The first set of season 1 was released on a single Region 1 DVD by MHz Networks on 31 August 2010 under the title; Henning Mankell's Wallander: Episodes 1â3.
* The second set of season 1 was released on a single Region 1 DVD by MHz Networks on 21 September 2010 under the title; Henning Mankell's Wallander: Episodes 4â6.
* The third set of season 1 was released on a single Region 1 DVD by MHz Networks on 23 November 2010 under the title; Henning Mankell's Wallander: Episodes 7â9.
* The fourth & final set of season 1 was released on a single Region 1 DVD by MHz Networks on 23 November 2010 under the title; Henning Mankell's Wallander: Episodes 10â13.
* The 13 episodes of season 2 were released in a Region 1, seven DVD set by Music Box Films on 29 May 2012 under the title; Henning Mankell's Wallander (#MBFHE-034).
* The third season of 6 episodes were released in a Region 1, four DVD set by MHz Networks on 27 May 2014 under the title; Henning Mankell's Wallander 3.
References
Further reading
*Macnab, Geoffrey (31 July 2009).
Wallander: Swede dreams are made of this. ''The Independent'' (Independent News & Media).
:âA comparison between the Branagh's and Henriksson's Wallander
External links
*
Branagh's Wallanderâ Website relating to the BBC's English-language Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh and Swedish versions with Krister Henriksson and Rolf LassgĂ€rd
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Series 2on Yellowbird.se
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