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"Wallander" Firewall (2008)


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7.2/10   182 votes
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Richard McBrien (written by) and
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7 December 2008 (Season 1, Episode 2)
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Eighteen-year-old Sonia admits to the vicious knifing and robbery of a taxi-driver, but she is an unhelpful interviewee... more | full synopsis
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Cast

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Kenneth Branagh ... Kurt Wallander
Sarah Smart ... Anne-Britt Hoglund
Sadie Shimmin ... Lisa Holgersson

Tom Beard ... Svedberg

Tom Hiddleston ... Martinsson
Richard McCabe ... Nyberg

Jeany Spark ... Linda Wallander

Orla Brady ... Ella Lindfeldt
Susannah Fielding ... Sonja Hokberg
Angela Terence ... Eva Persson
Ysobel Gonzalez ... Eva's Mother
Guy Henry ... Erik Hokberg
Rebecca Egan ... Susana Hokberg
Christian Roe ... Jonas Landahl
Annabel Mullion ... Marianne Falk
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The murdered taxi driver's bloody ID card reads "Johan Lundberg," but later when Wallander later refers to him on the phone, he calls him "Gunnar" Lundberg. more
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Version of "Brandvägg" (2006) more

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Great Acting, Swedish Backgrounds Make Up For Weak Plot, 18 May 2009
8/10
Author: kayaker36 from Queens, NY

Ken Branagh has been around for so long one is surprised to see him still playing a semi- romantic role. Then it is remembered how very young he was when he burst into prominence with his **Henry V**--a role he now owns after appropriating it from no less a figure than Olivier.

Sweden remains a quite sparsely populated country with a good deal of open space. This is excellently exploited in this three-part series set in the province of Skane in the southwest of Sweden. Some of the cinematography is Bergmanesque, capturing the bleak beauty of the region.

As a provincial detective with personal issues, Branagh captures the Scandinavian melancholy like a junior Max von Sydow--lengthy silences, expressions full of pain suffusing his baby face. Like any Shakespearian, he's also got a great voice, full of subtleties and surprising power. The supporting roles are well played by a strong British cast.

This middle program deals with a terrifying conspiracy of international proportions and with some of the travails of mundane life. Several absurd coincidences unfortunately hinder suspension of disbelief. There also is a surprising amount of violence, with several murders, a mutilation and much blood. Branagh's Det. Wallander carries a pistol--a powerful 9mm SIG-Sauer--but in truth he isn't much good at using it. In one scene he fires uselessly into a thick fog, trying to stop a fleeing automobile. This has to be against regulations.

The action speeds up to a conclusion that mixes success and tragedy in nearly equal proportions.

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