Fredrik Agetoft
Writing
Biography
Fredrik Agetoft (b. 1971) has been working as a screenwriter since 1996, successfully writing for television, feature films and video games. With his dual experience in the gaming industry, Fredrik is able to compare the gaming world with more traditional areas of work, making his ideas for television and film highly imaginative and original. Agetoft is one of the writers of Swedish Television’s Christmas Calendar 2020, Miracle, which revolves around two girls from different time periods who switch bodies. He is also the writer of the new Beck film Death in Samarra, which premiered on C More in January 2021.
Known For
Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.
Beck
Anna, a young and naive woman, moves to Knutby to become part of the free church congregation as a nanny, which to her seems like a warm and pious community. But soon the idyll that never existed crackles, and manipulation, power games, social exclusion, group pressure, brainwashing, fanaticism and both more and less religiously sanctioned left-wing chatter end in murder and grief.
The Congregation
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Julkalendern
An artificial black hole crashes straight into an old mansion. The crash means that the year 2020 is connected with the year 1920. When Mira and Rakel stand in front of the hole, something strange happens.
Mirakel
A violent gang in one of Stockholm's suburbs is suspected of another fatal shooting and the Stockholm police are conducting a cross-border operation to prosecute the leader of the gang.
Beck 54 - In the shadows
The team investigates an arson murder involving head pastor Tolle, who is found burned to death inside the Jeriko parish church. The church’s other pastor is Ellen Bengtsdotter Dahl, a childhood friend of Alex. The case quickly becomes personal, and Alex faces difficult choices as her professional duties clash with her past.
Beck 53 - From the Ashes
When Alex is alerted to a brutal murder, she brings the temporarily suspended Vilhelm and her colleague Josef to the crime scene. The victim turns out to have connections to the digital university Howl, which investigates the role of men in a changing world. At the same time, the case is linked to an older investigation into the "Balcony Man", which brings Martin Beck back to the department.
Beck 52 - The Invisible Man
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague. One of the witnesses worked with Alex when she was in the Middle East.
Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame.