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Eleven-year-old Johannes is found dead in a barn after he has been sexually abused. Lindman is charged with telling the father, whom he knows from a local shooting club, but is taken off ... See full summary »

Director:

Stephan Apelgren

Writers:

Stefan Thunberg (screenplay), Henning Mankell (story)

Stars:

Krister Henriksson, Johanna Sällström, Ola Rapace

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Krister Henriksson	...	Kurt Wallander
Johanna Sällström	...	Linda Wallander
Ola Rapace	...	Stefan Lindman
Fredrik Gunnarsson	...	Svartman (as Fredrik Gunnarson)
Mats Bergman	...	Nyberg
Stina Ekblad	...	Obducenten Karin Linder
Chatarina Larsson	...	Lisa Holgersson
Ulf Friberg	...	Lasse Bengtsson
Claes-Göran Turesson	...	Ulf Rickardsson
Ing-Marie Carlsson	...	Britta Holm
Anders Ahlbom Rosendahl	...	Roffe Liljeberg (as Anders Ahlbom Rosendal)
Lennart Jähkel	...	Greger Frankman
Sven Strömersten-Holm	...	Klas Gråstedt (as Sven S. Holm)
Rolf Degerlund	...	Åke Andersson
Hampus Edfeldt	...	Stefan 11år

Storyline

Eleven-year-old Johannes is found dead in a barn after he has been sexually abused. Lindman is charged with telling the father, whom he knows from a local shooting club, but is taken off the case for previous unprofessional contact and pursues his own investigations. The prime suspect, a man seen chatting to Johannes at a supermarket, is found dead but his neighbour, an ex-policeman, had already arrested a similar child killer years earlier. As the investigation continues, it is clear that child pornography is involved, reopening old memories for Lindman.

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Plot Keywords:

child murder | younger version of character | snow | flashback | police officer on suspension | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

SF [Sweden]

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

14 December 2008 (Sweden)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Yellow Bird

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

In Sweden this and another two episodes of season 1 were released theatrically: Wallander: Innan frosten (2005) and Wallander: Mastermind (2005). The rest of the season was released straight to video; only later was it shown on TV.

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Goofs

In the end credits, character name "Stefan 11år" is missing a space - it should be written as "Stefan 11 år".

User Reviews

Eleven year old Johannes is found dead in a crevice. The postmortem shows that the boy has been sexually abused and beaten to death.

PLOT Eleven year old Johannes is found dead in a crevice. The postmortem shows that the boy has been sexually abused and beaten to death. Detectiv Stefan Lindman is a member of the same shooting club as the victims father and they are also friends. Therefore he becomes the one that has to tell the father what has happened to his son (Johannes). When the father finally understands what has happened he demands that Stefan personally gets the one responsible. Stefan is since a previous case being accused for abuse, because the internal investigation Stefan has to go on paid vacation, and he is not allowed to continue his investigation. But because of personal issues he continues the investigation anyway. He has a dark secret, a secret that has the answer to why he came to Ysta in the first place.

Personal thoughts This is by far the best Wallander-movie so far. It's probably the best Swedish movie I've ever seen.