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Wallander

Specials 1995 - 2007

  • 1995-09-03T19:00:00Z on SVT
  • 56m
  • 4h 40m (5 episodes)
  • Sweden
  • Crime
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. The suite consists of five films and four television miniseries which ran from 1995 to 2007, starring Rolf Lassgård as Wallander.

5 episodes

1995-09-03T19:00:00Z

Special 1 Faceless Killers

Special 1 Faceless Killers

  • 1995-09-03T19:00:00Z56m

In a farmhouse in Lunnarp, an old man is tortured to death and his wife savagely beaten and left for dead. The story focuses on Sweden’s attitude towards immigration and explores themes of racism and national identity.

1995-11-10T20:00:00Z

Special 2 The Dogs of Riga

Special 2 The Dogs of Riga

  • 1995-11-10T20:00:00Z56m

A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who’ve been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia.

Kurt is drawn into complex conspiracy.

1996-11-01T20:00:00Z

Special 3 The White Lioness

Special 3 The White Lioness

  • 1996-11-01T20:00:00Z56m

There are two parallel plots: one during late apartheid South Africa where incumbent president F.W. de Klerk, leader of the Afrikaner minority which is on the brink of losing power to the African majority under the leadership of the ANC; in the other, detective chief inspector Kurt Wallander is investigating a case of a missing female Methodist real-estate agent outside Ystad.

Wallander realizes that the case has deep roots in the history and current development in South Africa.

2005-06-26T19:00:00Z

Special 4 One Step Behind

Special 4 One Step Behind

  • 2005-06-26T19:00:00Z56m

Two young women and one young man, inexplicably dressed as the nobility of Sweden did during the reign of Gustavus III, are found dead, each slain with a single bullet, their bodies half consumed by animals in the wilderness. Wallander is horrified when he makes a connection between the crime and his close friend Svedberg.

2007-12-28T20:00:00Z

Special 5 The Pyramid

Special 5 The Pyramid

  • 2007-12-28T20:00:00Z56m

Kurt Wallander’s goddaughter Eva is found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that the heroin is unusually strong and Kurt searches for those behind the drugs.

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