Inspector-Wallander.org is the site for English-speaking fans of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Mystery series. The first series consists of adaptations of Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind. A large hole was needed for the shallow grave, so Yellow Bird approached the local authority for permission. [5] Branagh did not watch any of the Swedish Wallander films before playing the role, preferring to bring his own interpretation of the character to the screen.[6]. The budget for the final season is 100 million Swedish kronor. When the Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh was murdered in Stockholm last … Most of the book takes place in South Africa and the episode was filmed in Cape Town in January 2015.[76]. [109] Final ratings, incorporating those who watched via DVR, was 6.54 million, making it the eighth-most-watched programme on BBC One that week. The average viewer rating was down 300,000 on the same timeslot in the previous week. [138], The increase in sales of the novels already published in the UK was also attributed to the television series. [145], Ystad was awarded the 2009 Stora Turismpriset (The Great Tourism Award). A body is found at a cash point, the apparent victim of a heart attack, and later two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. Harries described Wallander as "more than just a detective series" and that it would be visually "very picture postcard". 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. Karin Bertling also appears in the English language Faceless Killers and has previously worked on the Swedish-language TV film Before the Frost. BBC1"Ystad - the Texas of Sweden..." Kenneth Branagh stars in the first of three feature-length versions of Henning Mankell's best-selling detective novels. But his happiness is shattered when the skeleton of a girl is discovered in the garden. Do what I say! Wallander (British TV series). Away from the police station, Wallander has a tempestuous relationship with his daughter Linda (Spark) and his father Povel (Warner), who Wallander discovers in Sidetracked has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This signature hobby has been dropped for this adaptation; producer Francis Hopkinson believes it would make Wallander too similar to Inspector Morse, whose love of opera is already familiar to British viewers. "[107] The broadcast had an average 6.2 million viewers and 23.9% audience share. [65], The other two films in the series are Before the Frost, based on the novel of the same name, and An Event in Autumn, which is based on the short story "Händelse om hösten" (The Grave), a short story from 2004 published only in the Netherlands. [52][53] The production tried to use as many Latvian actors as possible but a problem arose as most Latvian actors had a very limited knowledge of English. [51] This film was directed by Esther May Campbell, and featured cinematography by Lukas Strebel who worked on the second Wallander series. He's called out to a farm one day While in South Africa for a conference, Wallander becomes involved in the investigation of a Swedish citizen's disappearance. The tax funded entities Ystad-Österlens filmfond and Film i Skåne have put three million Swedish kronor into the production according to Sveriges Radio. Mankell worked closely with Harness on the scripts. Buy Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander by Mankell, Henning online on Amazon.ae at best prices. "To get all these different visions to work together was a bit nervous last year. Away from the police station, Wallander has a tempestuous relationship with his daughter Linda (Spark) and his father Povel (Warner), who Wallander discovers in Sidetracked has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Then Wallander discovers that Håkan and his wife Louise (Ann Bell) had … This year the pressure is to develop the style of this show and develop the characters, for example the other policemen at the station. The final series aired in the original English on BBC One in May 2016. "[4] In the novels, Wallander regularly listens to opera in his apartment and his car. On 4 August 2011 it was made official that three new films were in production. View all the Shows sorted from most popular on TVGuide.com. Scenes were also planned to be filmed at the summer residence that served as the home for Wallander's father. [43], Local politicians supported and invested 8,000,000 Swedish kronor (roughly £750,000) in the second Wallander series through Film i Skåne, a regional resource and production centre.[44]. Using scripts adapted by Richard Cottan and Richard McBrien, filming ran for 12 weeks from April to July 2008 in Wallander's hometown of Ystad, Sweden. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series. [22][26] Martin Phipps composed the soundtrack to the series. An elderly bird-watcher falls to his death in a meticulously planned, brutal murder. They later signed on to support the production by other means such as letting BBC and Yellow Bird use Ystad Studios for free, worth about half a million Swedish Krona. Wallander believes he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from the novels Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind, in January 2008. A friend of Wallander's daughter comes begging for his help but then disappears. Statistics Sweden reports that Skåne is the only Swedish region that has seen an increase in hotel visits during the first quarter of 2009. He portrayed Colonel Putnis. Walton, like others, was complimentary of Branagh, and concluded by writing, "The series still probably won't appeal to fans of Heartbeat, but if you fancy an undoubtedly classy antidote to the cosy cop show, you could do a lot worse. [1] The third series was filmed in the summer of 2011 in Ystad, Scania, Sweden, and Riga, Latvia,[2] and aired in July 2012. Another castle was going to be used, but the deal fell through. "He is too busy to talk to me all the time. Series 2 features some interesting choices of actors for minor roles. They agreed to use the Red One digital camera to shoot on,[11] which has a near-35 mm resolution and is not as expensive as 35 mm; Dod Mantle said that the BBC "has politics" about the cheaper 16 mm and Super 16. Locked in a desperate effort to catch him before he strikes again, Wallander always seems to be just one step behind. [40], Kenneth Branagh explained that the challenge for filming series one was to "create" the strange world of Ystad, in part as Henning Mankell saw it, in part as script writer Rick Cottan saw it, and then upon arrival to realise that the town looks different. Wallander’s team at the Ystad police station is made up of: Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell ‘s Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. [75], Shooting took place in Ystad Studios, simultaneously with the third season of Swedish-Danish crime drama The Bridge. Filming started 14 November and was directed by Toby Haynes [45] According to Yellow Bird producer Daniel Ahlqvist, An Event in Autumn is about how "Kurt tries to take charge of his own life by getting a new house but gets interrupted and is more or less forced back to his job". Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (Kurt Wallander Mysteries) Henning Mankell. [70] This was mainly shots of the environment and the nature of the conversation area and the Snogeholm lake, according to production manager Martin Ersgård. [129] The series was nominated for The TV Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. In interviews, Wallander has explained that her initial questions for the book around the nature of beauty, became sidetracked by other thoughts and ideas. [28] The BBC broadcast the series in January 2010. [133] The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated Branagh for the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film for his performance in One Step Behind. [148] It features all three films, the Who is Kurt Wallander? There is a level of empathy with the victims of crime that is almost impossible to contain, and one of the prices he pays for that sort of empathy is a personal life that is a kind of wasteland. In a powerful moment, Wallander confesses that even his own daughter attempted suicide, which was also an undertone in Sidetracked. With the woman having been killed by a seemingly religious obsessive, Wallander must catch the culprit before he strikes again. Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. [110] David Chater's Times preview called Branagh "a masterpiece of vulnerability and despair". Sadie Shimmin as Lisa Holgersson (Series 1–2), Polly Hemingway as Gertrude, Kurt's step-mother (Series 1–2), Independent News & Media plc (December 2009). [38], Filming on The Man Who Smiled began at the beginning of September. 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