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Updates for new Kurt & Linda Wallander film/video series

Posted 13 January 2005, updated 4 August 2005

Yellow Bird Films has released the names and projected release dates for all 13 of their new films in the new Linda & Kurt Wallander series. This series begins with the film Before the Frost and continues with two additional feature films for theatrical release plus ten more films which be shown on TV or released on DVD, I believe.

This is one of the largest film projects ever undertaken in Sweden and shooting will take two years. The Film In Skåne web site has an English language PDF file with details about the production as well as comments from Henning Mankell and others involved with the series.

The series features six main characters who readers will already be familiar with, but with new actors taking over the roles. Kurt Wallander is played by veteran Swedish actor Krister Henriksson, Linda Wallander by Johanna Sällström, Stefan Lindman by Ola Rapace, Ann-Britt Höglund by Angela Kovacs, Martinsson by Douglas Johansson and Nyberg by Mats Bergman.

The New Linda & Kurt Wallander Series
Swedish Title	English Title	German Title	Release
Innan frosten	Before the Frost	Vor dem Frost	2005 January 14 (*)
Byfånen	The Village Idiot	Der Dorftrottel	2005 July
Bröderna	The Brothers	Der Sammler	2005 August
Överdosen	The Overdose	Die Überdosis	2005 September
Afrikanen	The African	Der Afrikaner	2005 October
Mastermind	Mastermind	Mastermind	2005 December 19 (*)
Sol & Vår	Sun & Spring	Sonne & Frühling	2006 February
Poeten	The Poet	Der Poet	2006 April
Gräv där du sår	Dig Where You Sow	Grabe da, wo es dich schmerzt	2006 May
Svart Kung	Black King	Schwarzer König	2006 August
Containern	The Container	Der Container	2006 September 15 (*)
Förfalskaren	The Forger or The Counterfeiter	Der Fälscher	2006 October
Hemligheten	The Secret	Das Geheimnis	2006 December
* Swedish theatrical release

Here are the plot summaries for the two new full length films (translated from the Swedish):

Mastermind:
Linda Wallander is along with Stefan at the firing range. But when she attempts to shoot some clay pigeons her gun explodes. Linda is injured and taken to the hospital. It turns out that the gun was sabotaged. Who is the perpetrator? Is it someone from Linda's past...

Containern (The Container):
The police in Ystad get a telephone call about a container truck that has been parked in the forest for several days. Linda Wallander and a colleague go to the place and discover that the shipping container is full of dead people. They have suffocated and the have lain there for a long time. The investigation becomes complicated, the dead people lack any identity papers and the truck was stolen...

Full details can be found on the official Innan frosten website. The Internet Movie Database also has an entry for Innan frosten with links to the actors' filmographies.

Thanks to Wallander-Web.de for the German translation of the titles. Also, any submissions with corrections to the English translations of the titles or plot synopsis are welcome.