Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestAfter the occupation forces have put the Danish police out of action, Nielsen continues his investigation of the Baumann case in secret, thus putting both himself and his loved ones in danger. And the more he finds out, the more impossible the solution seems.
During the occupation in 1944, filmmaker Otto Baumann is murdered. Detective Helge Nielsen stubbornly investigates the case — even as he's hunted by the Germans.
Acting
Henning Jensen's exhausted, stubborn resolve
Production
Claustrophobic Copenhagen, oppression in every frame
Writing
Bodelsen's novel, adapted with cruel precision
Creator
Anders Bodelsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bodelsen's source novel was controversial for depicting Danes as compromised rather than uniformly heroic—a rarity in 1980s Nordic fiction.
Shot during Denmark's post-Cold War reckoning with WWII memory, it helped reopen national conversations about collaboration that official history had buried.
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