
Jonas Grimås
Directing
Biography
Jonas Grimås (born 7 August 1958) is a Swedish film and television director, based in London since 1988. He was educated at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, and then the Royal College of Art in London. In 1988 he won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Short Film with Artisten. He was also nominated in 1995 for Best Short Film with Marooned. In 2011 he was named "Cultural Personality of the Year" by the Stockholms Kultur Foundation. Grimås started out working on Swedish soap operas but has made a name for himself by making British crime dramas. He was a regular contributor to ITV’s Heartbeat, having directed 30 episodes. He has also directed episodes of Hamish Macbeth, Silent Witness, and Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind starring Clive Owen. While based in London he has also taken on Swedish projects, directing two episodes of the TV series Wallander, and the adaptations of two Camilla Läckberg novels Predikanten ("The Preacher") and Isprinsessan ("The Ice Princess").
Known For

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Heartbeat

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.
Wallander

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
Hamish Macbeth

Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.
Tre kronor
While hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of a black youth leader.
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind

When an American tourist is found murdered after visiting an internationally renowned photographer, her husband believes she was having an affair. Kurt Wallander decides to investigate.
Wallander: The Photographer
As her surroundings are invaded by outsiders, THE FARMER'S WIFE stoically carries out her daily tasks in preparation for what will be her final day on her farm, the only land she has known. Unable to accept this forced future, subconscious memories return that ultimately lead her to connect more to the countryside of her youth than ever before.
The Farmer's Wife

While Kurt Wallander works on a murder case involving a charming yet evil horse dealer who plays on the vulnerability of lonely women, he finds himself romantically involved with a married woman.
Wallander: The Trickster

A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher

Erica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered
Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess

The film centers around Peter Camaron who works at Left Luggage at a train station.
Marooned

Come along behind the scenes when Sällskapsresan III is recorded. The documentary alternates between the filming of many of the well-known scenes, clips from the film and interviews with the actors such as Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen and Birgitte Söndergaard, as well as the creative forces behind the camera, including producer Bo Jonsson.
Bakom Sällskapsresan III
A man with a battered, jangling suitcase appears in an airport out of nowhere. The surprised customs officer, ever more confused, gets a free ticket for a performance he will never forget.