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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.
Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Two men in love with Henriette Perrichon do their best to convince her father to pick them as her groom in mid 19th century France.
An Argentine actor comes to Sweden. He has pictured Sweden as a paradise. From his small rented room, he tries in vain to make contact with the Swedes.
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's biological mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
A convent organist and music teacher escorts a young woman who has been boarding there, home to be married, but romantic complications ensue.
In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim...
A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a famous movie star in his youth.
When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him. When his in-laws from his second marriage show up on the same day that his adult step-son turns up unannounced he finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in his lies.
The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.
Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the same way and invents a twin sister that works in a shoe shop that she pretends to be in order to seduce him.
Calle Pettersson is engaged to the young beauty Marilyn on the false pretense that he saved her life
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?
Bank manager Pankh has a habit of promoting the men who let him spend some time with their wives. Pelle Finkel doesn't want to subject his own wife to this so he decides to hire the prostitute Mimmi to pose as his wife.
About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.
