Young Wallander

Swedish Crime Drama With One Swedish Actor

TV-Shows Drama Mystery
English     7.1     2020     United Kingdom

Overview

Young Wallander is a drama web television series based on the writings of Henning Mankell about fictional Inspector Kurt Wallander.

The scriptwriters for the plot took the story of illegal immigrants, nationalists, and philanthropists helping refugees. The topic is undoubtedly relevant for modern Europe but too speculative.

In the story, a young Kurt Wallander serves in the line police and lives in a poor area of Malmö, inhabited by emigrants. Kurt accidentally witnesses a crime - a young man is brutally murdered in his yard, furnishing everything as if it was an ethnic murder. Unrest breaks out in the city, and Wallander, as a person familiar with local specifics, starts to investigate this case.

Young Wallander's main problem is that the TV-show lacks the spirit of down-to-earth realism, hopelessness, doom, and surrealism inherent in Scandinavian detectives.

Apart from the leading actor Adam Palsson, a Swedish actor, all the other actors in the series are British. Young Wallander was filmed not in Malmö but in Vilnius. Viewers won't see a single recognizable location, including the famous bridge, the twisted Turning Torso skyscraper, and the old city center, in the series.

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