Wallander 2008
Created by Henning Mankell
- Drama, Crime, Mystery
- 89 min episodes
- 4 seasons
- 12 episodes
- Ended
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.
DramaCrimeMysterybased on novel or bookswedenscandinaviapolicepolice detectivemurder investigationBBC One, PBS
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Character
Earnest, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Kenneth BranaghKurt Wallander
- Jeany SparkLinda Wallander
Crew
- Henning MankellCreator
- Henning MankellWriter
- Ralf IvarssonProducer
- Sanne WohlenbergProducer
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Seasons
- Series 13 eps · 2008
- Series 23 eps · 2010
- Series 33 eps · 2012
- Series 43 eps · 2016
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