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Wallander (film series) Wallander. (film series) Wallander is a film series based on the Kurt Wallander novels written by Henning Mankell that were adapted into multiple miniseries and TV films by Sveriges Television (SVT) between 1994 and 2006. These Swedish-language films starred Rolf Lassgård as Wallander.
EpisodeOriginally Aired Uk Bbc4Official RatingsRepeat AirdateThe Man Who SmiledSaturday 11 December 2010 21.00370,000Saturday 8 October 2011 21.00Firewall Part 1Saturday 18 December 2010 21.00283,000Saturday 29 October 2011 21.00Firewall Part 2Monday 20 December 2010 22.00423,000Saturday 5 November 2011 21.00One Step BehindSunday 26 December 2010 21.00416,000Saturday 15 October 2011 21.00Mar 1, 2016 · March 1, 2016. We’ve been discussing the merits of numerous film and TV versions of Kurt Wallander that have been created over the years over at Dead Good HQ and have got into quite a heated debate…. The popular Swedish detective created by author Henning Mankell has been portrayed most famously by Krister Henriksson, Rolf Lassgård and ...
Lassgård was born in Östersund, Jämtland. A keen amateur ice hockey player in his youth, he also joined theatre teacher Ingemar Lind's Institute for the Performing Arts in the village of Storhögen outside Östersund. He then attended the Stage School in Malmö from 1975 to 1978. There Lassgård met the director Peter Oskarson and joined his ...
Rolf Lassgård. Actor: A Man Called Ove. He started acting school in Malmö and went from there to the Skånska Teatern in Landskrona, performing in plays by Shakespeare or Brecht. He made a breakthrough as Puck in William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream'. He also met his wife Birgitta there. The 1990s meant a lot of work in front of ...
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Wallander was born in 1948. His mother died when he was about 14. After completing national service, he joined the police. As a young police officer, he was nearly killed when a drunk whom he was questioning stabbed him with a butcher's knife(this is mentioned in the account of his first case). He has a sister, Kristina. Wallander was once married,...
The following Kurt Wallander novels have been translated into English. They are listed in the order that they were originally published in Sweden: 1. Mördare utan ansikte (1991; English translation by Steven T. Murray: Faceless Killers, 1997) 2. Hundarna i Riga (1992; English translation by Laurie Thompson: The Dogs of Riga, 2001) 3. Den vita lejon...
Film series
Between 1994 and 2007, all nine Wallander novels published at the time were made into films in Sweden starring Rolf Lassgårdas Wallander: 1. Mördare utan ansikte [Faceless Killers], 1994 2. Hundarna i Riga [The Dogs of Riga], 1995 3. Den vita lejoninnan [The White Lioness], 1996 4. Villospår [Sidetracked], 2001 5. Den 5e kvinnan [The Fifth Woman], 2002 6. Mannen som log [The Man Who Smiled], 2003 7. Steget efter [One Step Behind], 2005 8. Brandvägg [Firewall], 2006 9. Pyramiden [The Pyramid]...
TV series
From 2005 to 2006, 13 new stories, starring Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander and Johanna Sällström as Linda Wallander, were produced. The first film, based on Before the Frost, was released in cinemas. The rest are original stories not based on any of Mankell's books, and were released on DVD, with the exception of Mastermindwhich was also released in cinemas. 1. Innan frosten [Before the Frost]. 2. Byfånen [The Village Idiot]. 3. Bröderna [The Brothers]. 4. Mörkret [The Darkness]. 5. Afr...
Special appearances
Mankell's friend and writer Jan Guillou used Kurt Wallander in the 10th book of his Carl Hamilton-series En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke [A Citizen Above Suspicion]. Guillou and Mankell also co-wrote the Swedish crime-drama mini series Talismanen and here we also encounter Kurt Wallander as a supporting character, this time portrayed by actor Lennart Jähkel.
Polito, Robert (April 2005). "Murder, My Swede: Henning Mankell's Scandinavian Noir". Artforum International. archived at AccessMyLibrary.Reijnders, Stijn (June 2009). "Watching the Detectives: Inside the Guilty Landscapes of Inspector Morse, Baantjer and Wallander". European Journal of Communication. 24 (2). Sage Publications: 165–1...Official Henning Mankell site Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback MachineComprehensive Henning Mankell fan site Archived 2020-10-20 at the Wayback MachineKurt Wallander's Ystad[permanent dead link]Faceless Murderer: With Rolf Lassgård, Sven Wollter, Åke Jörnfalk, Rolf Lydahl. A farmer discovers that his neighbors have been murdered. Wallander get on the case.
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Mannen som log: With Rolf Lassgård, Marie Richardson, Christer Fant, Lars Melin. In this adaption of a Henning Mankell novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates a case of murder and trade of human organs.
