Mikael Marcimain

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count63

Horizon Line

A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack.

Release Date2020-10-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count409

Gentlemen

Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.

Release Date2014-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Blackwater

Set in the 1970s, Blackwater tells the story of how four random people's lives converge after two tourists are found murdered in a tent near the Swedish mountain town of Blackwater.

Release Date2023-01-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count35

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count76

The Hunt for a Killer

Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. A reality-based crime drama about the policeman Per-Åke Åkesson and the reconnaissance group that was tasked with investigating several murders of women in northeastern Skåne. The series starts in Hörby in 1989.

Release Date2020-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count23

Wallander: The Heritage

When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski, with whose wife Manfred was having an affair, but Jan is found hanged - later evidence suggesting foul play. Benjamin Wilkes, an ex-psychologist who helped Manfred select redundancy candidates, is killed in the same way as Manfred, putting disgruntled ex-Brada employees in the frame, but a third slaying implicates a former patient of Wilkes, who has connections to the Stjarne family. A newly loved-up Isabelle and Pontius start to fool around whilst on surveillance, taking their eye off the ball and allowing this suspect to confront Claire.

Release Date2010-04-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Wallander: The Ghost

Arson is suspected when a house burns to the ground following a gas explosion, and a man and a woman are found dead. Wallander investigates and uncovers an intricate web of lies.

Release Date2010-03-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

How Soon Is Now?

How Soon Is Now? is a 2007 Swedish drama television serial directed by Mikael Marcimain. The narrative portrays four people who grow up Gothenburg between 1966 and 1976. The serial was produced for Sveriges Television, from a screenplay by Peter Birro.

Release Date2007-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Laura Trenter Presents

Three of author Laura Trenter's highly successful children's crime stories have been adapted for television and are now available as nine 30 minute episodes. Laura Trenter is the daughter of crime novelists Stieg and Ulla Trenter.

Release Date2002-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

An Honest Life

When a cynical law student in search of inspiration joins a band of anarchists, he becomes entangled in a web of crime where he is more pawn than player.

Release Date2025-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count29

The Laser Man

The series follows the events during the fall and winter of 1991–92, when John Ausonius shot a total of eleven people with an immigrant background. The series partly follows Ausonius during the execution of the crime, and partly the police's detective work. The series also provides an insight into Ausonius' earlier life, from high school age onwards.

Release Date2005-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count7

Liberty

Christian moves to Tanzania with his do-good parents and tries to find his way in a community of ex-pats and Africans.

Release Date2018-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count8

The Grave

Archaeologists dig up a mass grave in a Swedish forest. A special police group is set up to find out the murderers.

Release Date2004-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count6

Knullträdet

"The Shag Tree" was a Swedish campaign promoting a more open and more honest relationship to our sexuality and the use of condoms at the same time.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

It Burns!

Two girls think that maybe they burned down an old house in the forest, when they secretly went to smoke a cigarette, but what does the burned house have to do with a madman named Reine and a dragon? Maybe there is more to this mystery than the girls know.

Release Date2002-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Doktor Glas

Doktor Glas face ethical complications when a woman, Helga Gregorius, asks for help in preventing her husband, the disgusting Pastor Gregorius, to have sex with her.

Release Date2009-02-28

DepartmentCamera

JobCamera Operator