Anna Bjelkerud (Actor)

Wallander

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Release Date2005-01-14

Charactersd Vibeke

Episode Count1

Vote Count61

My Life as a Comedian

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.

Release Date2019-10-11

Charactersd Jenny's mom

Vote Count7

A Christmas Tale

A tale of a boy from a wealthy family who during his work at the post office steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm.

Release Date2021-11-12

Charactersd Adult Vera

Vote Count30

The Restaurant

Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle don’t yet know that their brief encounter will come to have tumultuous consequences.

Release Date2017-10-02

Charactersd Ethel Jonsson

Episode Count32

Vote Count22

Julkalendern

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Release Date1960-11-27

Charactersd Betty

Episode Count72

Vote Count11

White People

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?

Release Date2015-10-30

Charactersd Aina

Vote Count9

Springfloden

A homeless former detective and an aspiring police officer join forces to solve a cold case in which a pregnant woman was buried alive on a beach on North Koster Island.

Release Date2016-03-06

Charactersd Margit Welin

Episode Count6

Vote Count22

Hold Me Tight

15-year-old Ida lives with her mother in Rossö in the Strömstad archipelago. Over the course of three stormy days, her life is turned upside down. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a non-existent relationship with her father and is let down by her best friend. —Maria Eriksson

Release Date2009-01-23

Charactersd Ida's mother

Vi på Saltkråkan

Release Date2025-10-31

Charactersd Söderman

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Quiet Life

A refugee family in Sweden faces trauma after their youngest daughter falls into an unexplained coma when denied asylum. Parents struggle to find a cure, resilience tested amid difficult circumstances.

Release Date2025-01-01

Charactersd Mrs. Nyman

Vote Count14

A Class Apart

When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.

Release Date2021-08-17

Charactersd Elisabeth

Episode Count8

Vote Count5

Alex

Ruthless and corrupt police officer Alex has decided to come to terms with his dubious past and become clean. But the dark forces he has collaborated with earlier refuses to let him off the hook, putting both Alex and his family's lives at great danger. At the same time Alex gets a new partner, Frida, who secretly has been instructed to bring him down.

Release Date2017-11-03

Charactersd Ragnhild Björkfors

Episode Count6

Vote Count11

Call Girl

Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.

Release Date2012-11-09

Charactersd The Chancellery Secretary

Vote Count76

Greger Olsson köper en bil

Greger Olsson and his wife are expecting their first child and she wants to buy a stroller, but Greger has other plans.

Release Date1990-01-31

Charactersd Karin Olsson

Beyond Dreams

Mirja must find her place after serving jail time. When she gets a job as a hotel cleaner she starts living a double life. She's torn between her sick mother and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family.

Release Date2017-03-17

Charactersd Edit

Vote Count11

Meaning of Life

Alva wants nothing more than to become a parent together with boyfriend Nico, but it's just not happening. Meanwhile, her sister Ellen has three children with husband Alex — and dearly wishes she hadn't.

Release Date2022-12-11

Charactersd Mona

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Det mest förbjudna

Release Date2016-03-25

Charactersd Hilma

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Blue Eyes

High adrenaline Swedish political thriller from the creative talent behind Humans – An extreme right-wing party is heading towards its best election result when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace. Racism, immigration and nationalism are explored in this series praised by New York Times.

Release Date2014-11-30

Charactersd Annika Nilsson

Episode Count10

Vote Count15

Ängelby

Vera, a mother of two children, is left by her husband and looses her job all at once. She gets a job offer in another town, grabs her children and their belongings and moves there for a fresh new start in life. Before she gets there she hits a boy with her car. In chock, she assumes the boy to be dead. But is it really Vera who killed him?

Release Date2015-09-28

Charactersd Lärarinnan Eva Lindgren

Episode Count12

Vote Count8

Home Sweet Home

The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the young son decides to take matters into his own hands. In a panic, the wife and son both believe the man is dead and dump him on a roadside. The man survives, however, and returns home weeks later confined to a wheelchair probably for the rest of his life. How will each member in the family cope with this new situation?

Release Date2001-03-09

Charactersd Elisabeth

Vote Count8

The Inner Circle

The day before Almedal Week begins, Minister of Business Affairs David Ehrling receives a call from Prime Minister Elvira Kropp. She explains that she intends to resign and that in connection with a press conference she wants to "point out" David as a possible successor. David will stop at nothing to become Prime Minister. But is it a price worth paying?

Release Date2019-03-22

Charactersd Elvira Kropp

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Comedy Queen

After her mother’s death and father’s ensuing depression, 13-year-old Sasha decides to look on the bright side of life and become a stand-up comedian.

Release Date2022-02-11

Charactersd Grandmother

Vote Count17

Hammarkullen

Welcome to new Sweden. Will Kristina manage to seduce the janitor? Can the employment officer convince Mohammed to take a black job? Does the balloon man abuse helium?

Release Date1997-11-24

Charactersd Mum Eva

Episode Count4

Vote Count6

The Giant

A film about Rikard, age 30. He is autistic and severely disfigured. He lives in a home for disabled people. He was separated from his mother as a three-year-old, and this continues to torment him today. To deal with life's trials, Rikard escapes into a fantasy world in which he's a 50-meter-tall giant.

Release Date2016-10-14

Charactersd Elisabeth

Vote Count35

Raspberry Boat Refugee

Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.

Release Date2014-08-19

Charactersd Manager

Vote Count19

Second Run

A comedy series about the Hedlund’s starting a new life in the far north of Sweden. The father Petter, runs in to culture clashes while Madde has an identity crisis; is she still the small-town girl from northern Sweden or did the big city change her more than she’d like to admit?

Release Date2018-11-11

Charactersd Ulla

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

The Detective from Beledweyne

Release Date2023-03-13

Charactersd Lena Grundén

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

Hotel

Erika is mentally bruised and starts group therapy with people seeking absolute anonymity.

Release Date2013-09-06

Charactersd Pernilla

Vote Count44

Danslärarens återkomst

A former policeman is tortured and murdered and his friend and former colleague investigates the case.

Release Date2004-11-05

Charactersd Helen Larsson

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

One Step Behind

Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.

Release Date2005-06-25

Charactersd Ylva Brink

Vote Count17

Nadja

Summer by the sea. Young Nadja is about to learn how to swim. In the swim-school she is by far the best at swimming on dry land.

Release Date1995-04-08

Charactersd Nadja's mother

När karusellerna sover

Release Date1998-12-01

Charactersd Betty

Episode Count1

Enligt beslut

About the refugee Carlos who has just been told he can't stay in Sweden, and about the civil servants handling his case.

Release Date1988-11-17

Charactersd Eva-Lena

Dance My Doll

Worried asylum seekers, angry activists, and obedient case workers in an equally wonderful as sharp stop-motion film about people who are all caught in the bureaucratic claws of the migration agency.

Release Date2022-10-12

Charactersd Astrid (voice)

Summer's End

In a lush Swedish summer idyll, a family is selling its summer cottage. Something has happened, something terrible that shatters the family, something that the youngest daughter Johanna in particular must learn to live with if she is ever to move on.

Release Date2016-01-30

Charactersd mamman

The Torpedoes

Sonny is released from prison where he got a romantic relationship with one of the employees Camilla. He is getting ready to live a normal life and move in with her, but a last minute bid on the house is getting in the way.

Release Date2014-11-16

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count7

JerryMaya's Detective Agency – The Secret of the Train Robber

Lasse and Maja have had their detective agency shut down by the police chief when a customer ask for help to prove her father is innocent of the train robbery he was convicted of. Lasse and Maja now see their great chance to show off.

Release Date2020-02-07

Vote Count8

Camilla Läckberg: The Gallows Bird

The Stranger - two children are taken, A new officer joins the team, a young girl is strangled and a death via traffic accident turns out to be more. In the meantime, Patrick and Erica plan a wedding.

Release Date2010-01-01

Vote Count8

Bad Faith

A disturbed woman and a violent lunatic walk the same path in this thriller from Swedish director Kristian Petri. Monia is a businesswoman who has been hired to work for a large corporation based in Gothenburg. One evening, while having drinks with her colleagues, Monia steps outside for some air and she happens upon a man who has been brutally stabbed by a serial killer on the loose. Monia, who feels a curious emotional distance from the world around her, isn't sure what to make of this incident at first, but she can't get the violent image out of her mind, and over the next several days she keeps stumbling upon victims of the killer's handiwork. No one finds any of this remarkable besides her friend Frank, but in time she begins crossing paths with a curious man who seems to appear at the same crimes scenes she observes.

Release Date2010-09-10

Vote Count5

Vännerna

It is a familiar fact that moving in together can be complicated. Expect additional trouble if both parties happen to be highly pedantic people with extreme control issues.

Release Date2014-01-25