Bron/Broen 

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

Stars:

Sofia Helin, Rafael Pettersson, Sarah Boberg

Top Rated TV #100 | 9 wins & 19 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Sofia Helin	...	Saga 38 episodes, 2011-2018
Rafael Pettersson	...	John 37 episodes, 2011-2018
Sarah Boberg	...	Lillian 32 episodes, 2011-2018
Dag Malmberg	...	Hans 30 episodes, 2011-2018
Kim Bodnia	...	Martin 20 episodes, 2011-2013
Puk Scharbau	...	Mette 19 episodes, 2011-2013
Thure Lindhardt	...	Henrik 18 episodes, 2015-2018

Storyline

Season 2 begins 13 months after the events of the first season. A coastal tanker leaves the Öresund waterway and is headed straight for the Øresund Bridge. When the Coast Guard board the ship they discover there is no crew, and three Swedish and two Danish youths are chained below deck. Saga Norén, County Police, Malmö, is put in charge of the case and contacts Martin Rohde, who is still haunted by the death of his son. Soon it turns out the chained youths were just the beginning... Someone wants to direct our attention to the changing climate and the use of our planet's resources, and will stop at nothing to do it. It all turns into a race against the clock to prevent a disaster where many lives are at stake...

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Plot Keywords:

police | sweden | denmark | female protagonist | nordic noir | 

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Genres:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Sveriges Television (SVT) [Sweden]

Country:

Sweden Denmark Germany

Language:

Swedish Danish

Release Date:

21 September 2011 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Bron/Broen

Filming Locations:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Box Office

Budget:

SEK 100,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmlance International AB, Nimbus Film Productions, Sveriges Television (SVT)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (5.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

In Poland, the series was broadcast in double episodes from 2 May to 30 May 2012 on Ale Kino+.

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Goofs

In the opening credits some of the traffic footage is mirrored causing the traffic to be driving on the left instead of the right side of the road and taking the roundabout in a clockwise fashion instead of counter-clockwise.

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Crazy Credits

The opening and closing credits appear in both Swedish and Danish, including the series title and descriptive character names.

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Connections

Featured in The Wright Stuff: Episode dated 18 October 2013 (2013)

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Soundtracks

Hollow Talk
Written by Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, Anders Rhedin and Fridolin Nordsø
Performed by Choir of Young Believers
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia
Theme song

User Reviews

Whoa! What an excellent criminal series!

A little background: I'm from U.S. and a few years ago, some friends had recommended I watch 'The Pusher' 3 part series, and that was so realistic, so entertaining, that I started following the main actors, see what other films they had done. And recently I'd done a search, and found Kim Bodnia was in this series, so that was main reason for watching it, plus, like many, I'd seen the U.S. version of The Killing and was curious again about Scandanavian movies.

So I read the reviews on here, and obtained and began to watch this series. I immediately liked the police officer played by Sofia Helin, and I presumed she had some sort of autism, tho I don't know enough about it to be sure, and figured maybe it was more an antisocial thing, but after a few episodes it became really appealing, and I've always liked Bodnia's gritty acting and he seemed a good counterpoint to Helin.

It didn't take but one episode to get me caught up in the crime drama, either. It was complex, and I had to go back a few times, and I could see the subtitles were lame at times, but still, when there are subtitles I just depend more on the acting, and it was great.

The violence was there, but not like US movies where it is overdone and become boring and cartoon like, here it was sparse and credible. I found myself truly frightened for the victims, and worried to the last episode over the fate of certain people.

Don't miss this one: I couldn't leave the screen it was so good. And I think myself that some of the role comprised in the US version of The Killing comes from this series, not from the original in Sweden, but the lack of emotion and inability to empathize that the police lady had in this series: well I think that was what the US actress was *trying* to achieve in her role. Watch this series, and then think of the US actress who played the police detective in The Killing.

Great series though,and one of the best crime stories I've seen