Wallander - Season 1 - Eps 5: The African

2005-11-1688 min⭐ 7/10

The national election is approaching, and the Ystad town square is plastered with election posters with local labour party candidate Kenneth Nillson, a politician fighting the fear of immigrants as his electoral focal point. He sees it as his duty to clean Skane's reputation as being racist. At the same time a train rolls into the train station in Gdansk, Poland. On the train the police find a African male with most of his face shoot away. As the man was murdered in Ystad, the starting point of the train journey this becomes a case for Kurt Wallander and the Ystad police. For Kurt Wallander the case takes an unexpected turn as the murder weapon has ties to a childhood friend.

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About Wallander

Wallander

Title: Wallander

First Air Date: 2005-01-14

Last Air Date: 2013-10-23

Status: Ended

Rating: 7/10 (from 54 votes)

Language: SV

Seasons: 3

Total Episodes: 32

Network: TV4

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Production Companies: Yellow Bird, TV4, Film i Skåne, Danmarks Radio (DR), Canal+

Synopsis

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Cast

Krister Henriksson

Krister Henriksson

Kurt Wallander

Charlotta Jonsson

Charlotta Jonsson

Linda Wallander

Signe Dahlkvist

Signe Dahlkvist

Klara Wallander

Mats Bergman

Mats Bergman

Nyberg

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Johan Svartman

Douglas Johansson

Douglas Johansson

Jan Martinsson

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