Arne Dahl: Dödsmässa 

Early one morning, a bank office in the middle of Stockholm is hit with a violent robbery. When the police storm the premises, the robbers have vanished without a trace. The event mystifies... See full summary »

Stars:

Malin Arvidsson, Sovi Rydén, Natalie Minnevik

Cast

Series cast summary:
Malin Arvidsson	...	Kerstin Holm 2 episodes, 2015
Sovi Rydén	...	Katarina Leijon. 2 episodes, 2015
Natalie Minnevik	...	Ida Jankowicz 2 episodes, 2015
Shanti Roney	...	Paul Hjelm 2 episodes, 2015
Alexander Salzberger	...	Jorge Chavez 2 episodes, 2015
Magnus Samuelsson	...	Gunnar Nyberg 2 episodes, 2015
Vera Vitali	...	Sara Svenhagen 2 episodes, 2015
Niklas Åkerfelt	...	Aarto Söderstedt 2 episodes, 2015
Alexander Karim	...	Bengt Åkesson 2 episodes, 2015
Kenneth Milldoff	...	Frank Albrekt 2 episodes, 2015
Vanna Rosenberg	...	Lotta Björk 2 episodes, 2015
Pelle Axnäs	...	Taxi Driver 2 episodes, 2015
Sasha Becker	...	Fanny Halvorsen 2 episodes, 2015
Jonas Bergström	...	Major Rudling 2 episodes, 2015
Kicki Bramberg	...	Erika Vesterhage 2 episodes, 2015
Manuel Dubra	...	Nurse 2 episodes, 2015
Göran Engman	...	Simon Vesterhage 2 episodes, 2015
Ulric von der Esch	...	Kenneth Svärd 2 episodes, 2015
Maria Grip	...	Gunilla Gudmundsen 2 episodes, 2015
Olle Jernberg	...	Andeas Becker 2 episodes, 2015
Omid Khansari	...	Dry Clean Owner 2 episodes, 2015
Andreas Kundler	...	Car Rental 2 episodes, 2015
Johan Lindell	...	Heinz Fischer 2 episodes, 2015
Bo Lyckman	...	Steven Hicks 2 episodes, 2015
Alexej Manvelov	...	Michail Botkin 2 episodes, 2015
Lars Göran Persson	...	Tore Mikaelis 2 episodes, 2015
Adam Pålsson	...	Eskil Trasteby 2 episodes, 2015
Samuel Vauramo	...	Vladimir Kozlov 2 episodes, 2015

Storyline

Early one morning, a bank office in the middle of Stockholm is hit with a violent robbery. When the police storm the premises, the robbers have vanished without a trace. The event mystifies the A Unit who, under the supervision of US Intelligence, takes the case. When they find a strange hiding place inside one of the bank's walls, with traces of secrets from the days of the Cold War, it soon becomes clear that the bank robbers are just pawns in a larger game. A game that will soon claim more victims.

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Plot Keywords:

police | bank robbery | detective | police detective | police investigation | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Sweden]

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish English Russian

Release Date:

1 March 2015 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Arne Dahl: Dødsmesse

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmlance International AB

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min (2 parts)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (5.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first episode premiered on 1 May 2015 with a duration of 58 minutes, while the second episode was released on 8 May of 2015, also lasting 58 minutes, the miniseries lasted 2 hours in total.

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Connections

Follows Arne Dahl: En midsommarnattsdröm (2015)

User Reviews

Walls have years

This second episode of the new series of "Arne Dahl" was more convincing than the lacklustre opener, I found. Kerstin coincidentally finds herself on the scene of a violent bank robbery by two Russian heavies but it turns out there's a third man upstairs with his own agenda, apparently looking for a long-hidden item again coincidentally stashed away in an adjoining wall to the bank at the time it was built next to, of all things, a pre-Reunification secret office of the East German republic.

The writing and direction this time, I felt, more skilfully interwove the detective work with the personal lives of the individual members of the team, particularly Kerstin, Paul, Chavez and Lilli. New girl Ida is still to find romance within the team, but there were hints that she might pick up Paul on the rebound from Kerstin or even get it together with her gentle giant minder Gunnar. Tall, bookish Anders, as before, stays somewhat aloof from the ABBA-type intrigue amongst the rest of them - it must be a a Swedish thing, I guess.

The plot was suitably opaque with characters mysteriously appearing and disappearing on the scene with the body count mounting up steadily before the not wholly satisfactory, because of the murky involvement of a CIA operative, conclusion is reached.

I'm still getting used to Chavez Mk II, Kerstin as the new if hardly dynamic team leader and new girl Ida who here continues her habit of putting herself in harm's way when the guns are firing. The ecological master-plan everyone was chasing had the distinct whiff of "McGoffin" about it but seemed a bit far-fetched as the main plot device.

All in all, this episode flowed better than the first of the series and for me, put the series back on track. I doubt it will reach the quality of its earlier run but this was definitely a step in the right direction.