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.
Before the frost
The village idiot
The brothers
The overdose
The african
Mastermind
The tricksters
The photographer
The container lorry
The castle ruins
The black king
The forger
The secret
The revenge
The guilt
The courier
The thief
The cellist
The priest
The leak
The sniper
The angel of death
The ghost
The heritage
The collector
The witness
The troubled man
The missing
The betrayal
The loss
The arsonist
The man who wept
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