Malin Lind Lagerlöf

Malin Anna Louise Lagerlöf, originally from Holst, born June 18, 1968, on Lidingö, is a Swedish screenwriter and playwright. She is the granddaughter of Nils Lagerlöf and belongs to the Lagerlöf family from Värmland. Lagerlöf has written a large number of scripts for theater, film, and television, been nominated for the Guldbagge for Best Screenplay, and often collaborated with her late husband, Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, with whom she has three children. In May 2016, she published an acclaimed autobiographical book about the time after her husband's death. Malin Lagerlöf has on some occasions been accused of having committed plagiarism, including concerning Vägen ut and Fursten.

Works

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

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count57

En dag i taget

Release Date1999-11-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Bibliotekstjuven

A librarian at the National Library in Stockholm gets access to extremely valuable and rare books. He steals and sell a large number of these to a book curator in Amsterdam.

Release Date2011-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Farang

Former criminal Rickard has vanished. Fleeing Sweden and the old friends he has testified against, he abandons his name, his life, and his family to start over in Thailand. Ten years later and still with a price on his head, Rickard knows that a return home would be a death sentence. And so he ekes out his existence as a small-time crook in the back alleys of Phuket. Life’s tough and dirty, but at least it won’t kill him.

Release Date2017-03-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count12

Miffo

Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different.

Release Date2003-07-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count24

His and Hers

Johan and Anna-Karin have been a couple for years but despite many attempts, Anna-Karin doesn't get pregnant. A visit to a fertility clinic shows why: Johan's sperm quality is too low. Johan is waiting to take over his father's farm, but what's the point if they can never have children? The news also puts a strain on their relationship since Anna-Karin desperately wants to be a mother.

Release Date2001-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

Bus to Italy

Choir leader Ylva and her choir are on a bus bound for Italy. Some of the members on the bus are looking forward to meeting the local mayor, others are just hoping for a free vacation, and yet a few more are still thinking that they're headed to Italy to sing. Common to them all is that they are more than happy to jump on this chance to escape their every day lives. Ylva too is one them. She wants to get away as soon as possible because she caught her husband in bed with the babysitter. She'll find that the young Erik and Ruben who join the choir for her are more than willing to offer her an adventure. The rest is made up of a sex-crowded pair, the couple who have not been with each other for years, the divorced woman who long for a man and the lesbian who did not dare come out.

Release Date2005-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

As Long As The Heart Beats

In the spring of 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic paralyzed all of Sweden, employees at a nursing home are forced to experience how the infection finds its way in, and the situation becomes increasingly desperate. Care assistant Hanne finds herself in a difficult dilemma.

Release Date2024-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Breaking Out

The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.

Release Date1999-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count33

Wallander: The Loss

A young woman is found dead in Ystad. When the police begin the case, they are told that the woman came from Moldova and that she worked as a prostitute in Sweden. Kurt, who leads the case, decides to seek out the woman's family in Moldova. When he returns to Sweden, he is involved in a car accident and takes a leave of absence from work. Around the same time, Kurt finds where his forgetfulness comes from.

Release Date2013-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10