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Article: 'More than ABBA and skinny-dipping in mountain lakes': Swedish dystopia, Henning Mankell and the British Wallander series
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- Film International
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Keywords: Wallander, Sweden, Kenneth Branagh, BBC, TV series, ideology, crime, welfare state
Introduction: from Morse to Norse
After Inspector Morse was killed off by a heart attack in 2000, the British press speculated about a replacement: an enigmatic and charismatic policeman that could captivate the TV audience for years, perhaps decades to come. And, by the way, one that would also be an impressive detective. At about the same time Henning Mankell became a household name throughout Europe, selling millions of books about a middle-aged cop who lives on his work in the small southern Swedish port town of Ystad (population: 17,000) around the clock, drinks too much, suffers from diabetes ...