Henning Mankell
Director
Wallander (UK) (2008)
Specials
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.
Released Nov. 30, 2008
Episode 89 min
None+
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Production Companies: Left Bank Pictures, Yellow Bird, TKBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
3.0
S0E1 - Who is Kurt Wallander
Well, he's the hero of BBC1's new crime drama starring Kenneth Branagh (9pm tomorrow BBC1). But what shaped this melancholic Swedish detective, and why have more than 25 million copies of the novels featuring him been sold worldwide? Crime writer John Harvey travels to Sweden to find out, talking to people on the streets, shadowing a cop and tracking down Wallander's reclusive but lucid creator, Henning Mankell.
By examining Mankell's anti-hero Wallander, it reveals the hidden angst affecting present-day Sweden, a country with an excellent welfare system yet one which has suffered two shocking recent political assassinations. The film tries to grasp what Mankell's characters say about Sweden and how his books inform the rest of the world about Scandinavia's largest country.
Dec. 6, 2008, midnight
S0E2 - Branagh's Wallander
S0E3 - Branagh and Mankell Discuss Wallander
Henning Mankel and Kenneth Branagh discuss Kurt Wallander
S0E4 - The Wallander Look
S0E5 - Wallander Country
On location with the BBC team
S0E6 - Being Kurt Wallander
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 89 min.
Season Runtime: 1068 min.
Released: Nov. 30, 2008
Last Air Date: May 22, 2016, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: 15
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